Lit!Commons: Inner Child Season 2
This pathway, led by Art Coulson, is focused on skillbuilding in your kidlit practice. Live sessions will include exercises, activities, Q&As, conversations, and shared support.
Inner Child
Lit!Commons Inner Child Pathway
Participants in Lit!Commons get access to all 10 teaching artists. Art Coulson leads the Inner Child pathway, which aims to help you understand and write in the genre of children's and young adult literature.
Art creates weekly on-demand content that can fit into your busy schedule and follows up with live sessions as well as peer conversation in our shared community.
In this pathway, you'll find activities and lessons like:
- A Conversation with Red Balloon Bookseller Claire O'Brien
- Using Character Sheets
- Writing Believable Dialogue
Your Teaching Artist
Lit!Commons Subscribers Gain Access to All 10 Teaching Artists. The Inner Child path is led by Art Coulson.
The Inner Child Art Coulson
Art Coulson is a writer of Cherokee, English, and Dutch descent and comes from a family of storytellers in all three traditions.
A Navy brat, Art traveled the world, attending 14 schools on three continents before graduating high school. Art served as the first executive director of the Wilma Mankiller Foundation in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma after an award-winning 25-year career in journalism.
Art, the 2023 McKnight Fellow in Children’s Literature, is the author of more than a dozen books, graphic novels and plays, including the middle grade novel, Chasing Bigfoot (2022), The Reluctant Storyteller (2020), and Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! (2021). The Reluctant Storyteller was named a best book of 2020 by Bank Street. Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! was named a best STEM children’s book by the National Science Teaching Association in 2022 and featured on the inaugural broadcast of Reading Rainbow Live!
Art is represented by Jacqui Lipton at The Tobias Literary Agency.
Website: artcoulson.com
Facebook: facebook.com/ShufflingTowardTheNightland/
Instagram: @UpWithTheMooses
A Navy brat, Art traveled the world, attending 14 schools on three continents before graduating high school. Art served as the first executive director of the Wilma Mankiller Foundation in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma after an award-winning 25-year career in journalism.
Art, the 2023 McKnight Fellow in Children’s Literature, is the author of more than a dozen books, graphic novels and plays, including the middle grade novel, Chasing Bigfoot (2022), The Reluctant Storyteller (2020), and Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! (2021). The Reluctant Storyteller was named a best book of 2020 by Bank Street. Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! was named a best STEM children’s book by the National Science Teaching Association in 2022 and featured on the inaugural broadcast of Reading Rainbow Live!
Art is represented by Jacqui Lipton at The Tobias Literary Agency.
Website: artcoulson.com
Facebook: facebook.com/ShufflingTowardTheNightland/
Instagram: @UpWithTheMooses
The Inner Child Path
This curriculum will build over time. You get access to it all!
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Shared Values and Rules
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Welcome to Season 2
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Inner Child Survey
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A Conversation with The Red Balloon's Claire O'Brien
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Inner Child Survey
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A conversation with the writer/illustrator team Stephen and Trisha Speed Shaskan: Part 1
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Inner Child Survey
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A conversation with the writer/illustrator team Stephen and Trisha Speed Shaskan: Part 2
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Inner Child Survey
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A conversation with the writer/illustrator team Stephen and Trisha Speed Shaskan: Part 3
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About this path
- Weekly On-Demand Lessons
- Live Follow-up Sessions
- Shared Community