I love everything about reading. I love the weight of a book in my hands. I love the way words create pictures in my head and bring me to another world. I love how books teach me about life and love and who I am and who I want to be.
As a kid I couldn’t help reading all day. I hid my book under my desk and read in class. I read as I walked home from school, always slightly surprised out of my reverie by the elderly lady in the neighborhood who announced: “There goes the bookworm again!”
I had reading parties with my siblings. The five of us piled on top of each other like kindling in a fire, our limbs touching as our minds burned with the need to read. After bedtime I read with a flashlight, my book hidden under the covers as I forced myself to stay awake for just one more page.
My love of reading made writing a necessity. If only I could write things in a way that would help people want to crawl inside my book and never leave! I hope you enjoy my books. Thanks for visiting!
Kirsti Call is an award winning author who co-hosts the Picture Book Look Podcast and hosts the Coaching for Creatives podcast as a therapist trained life coach. She’s a critique ninja for 12×12, a blogger for Writers’ Rumpus, and she’s judged the Cybils award for fiction picture books since 2015. Kirsti is the author of Mootilda’s Bad Mood (Little Bee), Cow Says Meow (Clarion) Cold Turkey (Little Brown), The Big Scream (Little Simon) and Smarty Ants (Capstone, 2023). Kirsti has an MSW from Boston College and is represented by Charlotte Wenger at Prospect Agency.
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