CWG readers will be delighted to know that guild friend and celebrated author Clara Gillow Clark has offered to gift two of our lucky readers with a signed copy of any book in her Hattie series.

For a chance to win a signed copy of one of Clara’s Hattie books, please reach out to us with your full name and preferred contact email at sheila@childrenswritersguild.com by December 15th (see giveaway rules below)! Our two winners will be randomly selected and promptly notified shortly thereafter.

Clara’s stories have been widely acclaimed. Her recent work Hill Hawk Hattie is Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year, included on the Kansas State Master List (William Allen White Award), the Kentucky Bluegrass Master List, and the Volunteer State (Tennessee) Master List.

A sampling of reviews of Clara’s work

With her grandmother’s fortune now gone and her recently deceased grandfather rumored to have been insane, Hattie worries about her family’s future. However, she makes a terrible error in judgment when she hides a tax collection notice marked “overdue” from her grandmother; she thinks she will be able to solve the problem by deciphering a coded message from her grandfather that she hopes will lead to treasure. Clever Hattie does decode the message, but in the end she must come up with more realistic ways to help. Clark delivers a taut, engaging story, balancing plot with a first-person narration that conveys Hattie’s depth of emotion and her practical, problem solving nature. Readers will look forward to the hinted at next book as Hattie at the end attempts to take charge of the new life she faces.
The Horn Book reviews Secrets of Greymoor

All of society have dark, unmentionable secrets,” grandmother tells Hattie Belle Basket, whose father has placed her in grandmother’s care. Hattie feels like a hawk blown off course living with Hortensia Holmes Greymoor after her wild rafting adventure in the previous Hattie outing, Hill Hawk Hattie. However, the gumption learned from her logger father pays off when Hattie has to survive in the genteel society Mrs. Greymoor inhabits. As in any close social circle, rumors and gossip abound, some connected to the mysteries in Hattie’s own life: What exactly was wrong with her now dead mother? What’s the mystery behind her grandfather’s disappearance? Was he murdered and buried in the garden? Hattie will have to prove that she’s a hawk that doesn’t falter even when in a storm, as she deals with the protocol of polite society. With rich description prose and solid characterization, Clark successfully develops a hugely satisfying mystery and family story with a perfect ending. (Fiction 9-13) Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Review for Hattie On Her Way

A sampling of reviews for Hill Hawk Hattie

Tough, conflicted, wry, and introspective, Hattie is an ideal character to connect readers to the history. . .With beautiful, rhythmic sentences, the simple first-person narrative captures Hattie’s rustic innocence, the thrilling rafting adventure, and the heartfelt struggle of a tough girl who feels useful to her father only in the role of a boy.
Booklist (starred review)
Clark’s novel will appeal to a wide audience of both male and female readers seeking adventure and history.
VOYA
We are astonished at Hattie’s courage as she helps raft down the Delaware River, and we follow the struggles of Hattie and her father as they try to come to terms with themselves and each other. Told with a frequent hint of humor. . .this is a remarkable picture of an interesting time and place in American history.
Children’s Literature

Giveaway Rules

Rules for Clara Gillow Clark Book Giveaway

  • Contestants must be at least eighteen-years-old to enter.

  • Winners will be announced December 16, 2015 by 4:00 PM on The Children’s Writer’s Guild website.

  • Entries must be received by 11:59 pm, December 15, 2015.

  • No purchase necessary to win.

  • Odds of winning will depend on the total number of contestants.

  • CWG Online contributors and staff are not eligible to enter.

  • Estimated retail value of unsigned book in Hattie series is approximately $15.00.

  • Two winners will choose one book in the Hattie series to be personalized by author Clara Gillow Clark.

  • This contest void where prohibited by law.

  • Winners will be chosen by random.

  • Only one entry per person. Entries should be sent to sheila@childrenswritersguild.com.

  • Questions concerning this contest can be sent to: Sheila Wright, PO Box 3313, Princeton, NJ 08543.

  • Books will be shipped directly from author Clara Gillow Clark.

Please note the rules above before entering!

Sheila Wright
Sheila is a Co-Founder and President of The Children's Writer's Guild, and Editor-in-Chief of CWG Online. She provides professional editing services, and is pursuing a graduate degree. Learn more about Sheila!