Today is our 20th Birthday!

[Verla Kay]

Twenty years ago today, Verla Kay created this message board so that writers and illustrators of children's literature would have a safe, strife-free place on the internet in which to share information with each other.    Has it ever grown over the past two decades. Just look at it today — it's still thriving and still a wonderful, safe place to discuss all aspects of children's literature. to the Message Board and everyone who shares information here!   

[Mrs. Jones]

     

[RebeccaL-G]

Woo-hoo! Thanks, Verla for all you've done for the kid lit community.

[Vonna]

Thank you for this wonderful space that you created, Verla, not for yourself but for others. Before it was acquired by SCBWI, I was just a lurker. Later, after I joined SCBWI, the message board quickly became my favorite member benefit. Happy birthday!

[andracill]

Twenty years -- very cool!

[AnneB]

How time flies when you're having a good time!
        
Five cakes = 20 candles!

[mrh]

                  

What an important place this has been, all that time.     

[JulieM]

Congratulations, Verla Kay. You must be so proud of the community you founded. Thanks to SCBWI for continuing it and making it a safe space for all. Thanks to all participants and especially the hardworking mods. You all are stars. XXX

[David Wright]

20th anniversary of the site! Yeah!

But how do I get china for it

[Vijaya]

Happy birthday to the Blueboards!!!        What a gift you've made for the whole children's community!!! Thank you!!! This is my favorite hangout online.     

[Debbie Vilardi]

Happy birthday, Blueboards (SCBWI Discussion Boards). My how you've grown and changed.

[Ev]

  Happy birthday to this wonderful place for writers and illustrators and everybody else interested in kids' literature!!   Thank you, Verla, for making it all possible.

[dewsanddamps]

  Happy birthday, everybody!

[mrh]

But how do I get china for it

[JodyJS]

Congratulations, Verla! You've created a real treasure! 

[Ree]

Happy Happy Birthday!

Ree

[AnnH]

        

[217mom]

Thanks to Harold Underdown's "Idiot Guide" and the fact that back then a casual internet search for a specific editor's name (who had asked me for more stories) pointed info on these boards, I got in early way back when. I learned so much here 

[217mom]

 

[Trine]

So happy to be a pat of the Message Board. 

[olmue]

Twenty years. Wow. Think of all of the children's books that have come out as a result!

[Pons]

Thanks, Verla. We owe you so much. 

[Verla Kay]

20th anniversary of the site! Yeah!

But how do I get china for it

Craigs List, Ebay or Amazon, David!