Over the past few years I’ve been thinking very much about what an amazing gift it is for those picture book authors who are also illustrators. Most especially those who choose to write for the very young.
I could be wrong, but I have this sense that an ability to call upon the visual creative side [...]
Tonight I am still beaming from the wonderful events of yesterday’s historic inauguration. It was an amazing morning, made all the more so because I got to share it with my first grade students and about 60 second and third graders.
Imagine. All those kids sitting quietly on the rug, watching our new president get sworn [...]
The Brown Bookshelf’ has posted their picks for Black History
month’s “Twenty-Eight Day’s Later” list. Check out this year’s
spotlights.
By lucky coincidence I picked up two terrifically fun books the other day at the bookstore: Gossie by Olivier Dunrea and Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed
by Mo Willems; later the same day I happened upon another Mo Willems at the library - I Am Invited to a Party!
Though I’m not at all surprised that [...]
I’ve added a new page to the POETRY tab. Please check out the “Poet Craft” button just under the banner on the POETRY page.
Read full post...It’s that time of year, and I’m finally seeing my way clear to setting goals for 2009. Perhaps it’s part of my list-making/planner-on-paper temperament but I’ve always been inclined to break my goals down into a version of manageable increments.
I was reminded of this idea of small goals to reach a larger goal after reading [...]
I've lived and traveled around the world, but now make my home in California.
By day, I teach; evenings and many weekends, I write.
My teaching, reading, and writing eventually led to a degree in Language and Literacy, and later, an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.