Esther’s newest title, S IS FOR STORY: A WRITER’S ALPHABET (Sleeping Bear Press) – an A-to-Z journey through a writer’s life and process, celebrates the Reader-Writer connection. Her other titles include CHICKEN SOUP BY HEART, a Sydney Taylor Book Award medalist, and the humorous middle grade novel THE CONFE$$ION$ AND $ECRET$ OF HOWARD J. FINGERHUT, a Crown Award nominee and Bank Street College Best Book of the Year.

     A former elementary teacher, Esther now teaches Writing for Children at the University of Chicago’s Writer’s Studio and Chicago’s Newberry Library.  She maximizes her writing, classroom, and coaching experiences to customize K-8 Writing Workshops and Family Literacy events that address the Six Traits of Writing and specific curriculum, district and Publishing Institute needs. Esther also facilitates Teacher In-service Workshops, sharing insights, tools and methods to seed and feed writers.

      Esther’s Author-to-Author Program at several CPS schools informs, affirms and inspires young writers.  She participates in the Illinois Young Authors Program at both local and state levels, helping students create, craft and honor their stories.  Serving as a consultant to both the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Botanic Gardens, Esther helped develop respectively an authorship-based program for the Magnet Cluster Writing and Literature Schools and the picture book writing component of the federally-funded Fairchild Challenge.

     For fees and travel expenses information, email Esther at her email listed below.

Contact Information:
Email: esthersh@aol.com.
Website:http://www.estherhershenhorn.com.
Blog Writings: http://www.TeachingAuthors.com