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Author of Books for Children
©Heather Ross
Reading NED THE KNITTING PIRATE and GRIMELDA THE VERY MESSY WITCH at Luna Park's "Halloween Harvest" in Coney Island, NY October 2017, 2018
Awards/Honors:
Amazon Best Book of the Year (2022)
Amazon Best Books of the Month (8/2016, 2/2020, 6/2021, 7/2022)
ILA/CBC Children's Choice Reading List 2020
Indiebound National Bestseller 2019
Book Depository Best Children's Books of 2019
Goodreads Choice Finalist 2019
2019 Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award for Beginning Fiction
Jr. Library Guild Selection (2016, 2020)
2016 SCBWI Magazine Merit Honor for the poem, "Baxter the Cleaning Dog" (Highlights, April 2015)
2014 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for
the poem, "Ocean Beach", illustrated by Kevin Zimmer (Highlights, August 2013).
2013 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for the poem, "Sandy Surprise" (Clubhouse Jr., August 2012), illustrated by Patrice Barton.
2013 SCBWI Magazine Merit Honor for her poem, "Unwelcome to Opposite Island" (Highlights for Children, July 2012), which featured a full-spread illustration by John O'Brien.
2010 SCBWI Barbara Karlin Grant for her rhyming picture book manuscript--an early version of GRIMELDA, THE VERY MESSY WITCH. You can read more about her experience here: "PiBoIdMo Success Story" (Tara Lazar's blog).
Diana Murray with illustrator Bats Langley at the launch party of GROGGLE'S MONSTER VALENTINE at AFA | NYC Gallery in SoHo, 2017
Princeton Children's Book Festival, 2017
In February, 2016, Diana Murray talked about her inspiration for CITY SHAPES
at a special event held at the offices of Little, Brown. The event was featured in Publisher's Weekly. You can read more about it at HERE.
"Sidewalk Trails": Essay about City Shapes in the Little Brown Newsletter.
Guest Blog Posts:
Tara Lazar's Blog: STORYSTORM (formerly PiBoIdMo)
・2023: Diana Murray Contains Chaos with Categories
・2022: What Now? A Post-Storystorm Post by Diana Murray
・Brewing Up a Character-Driven Story
・2015: Tune In with Diana Murray
Laura Sassi Tales
Write Like a 'Top Chef'
Ten Cures for Writer's Waiteritis
Examining Lyrical Picture Books
Parker Klosterman's Blog
Two poems for National Poetry Month
Jody Jensen Shaffer's blog
An interview with Diana Murray
Lynne Marie's Word Playground
Character First
Heather Ayris Burnell's blog
How I Got My Agent
Little, Brown School Newsletter
Rhyme Revolution 2017
Kidlit College
Writing Picture Books with Bite
Anastasia Suen
PIZZA PIG and an interview with Diana Murray, Jan 2018
Anitra Rowe Schulte
Author spotlight with Diana Murray (transitioning to early readers), Jul 2018
Group Blog (GROG)
On Writing Beginning Readers with Diana Murray
Jena Benton "Simply Seven" Interviews:
GRIMELDA: THE VERY MESSY WITCH >
Storytime with Signs and Rhyme
Birth Stories for Books: ONE SNOWY DAY by Diana Murray
In Fall 2019, Diana Murray lead a Highlights Foundation online workshop entitled: Getting To Know Your Rhyming Picture Book. Fellow faculty at the retreat included Tara Lazar, Jake Bazel, Nikki Garcia (editor), and Courtney Pippin-Mathur.
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