photo credit: San Jose Library Yesterday I attended the California Literature Council’s Spring Workshop: “I Can Read It By Myself… But Do I Want To? Inspiring Emergent Readers” presented by Megan Lambert of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Among other things, Lambert discussed The Whole Book Approach, which she described as a [...]
The other day Julie Larios passed along a letter challenge. The goal was to make a list of things you love that begin with the letter you’ve been assigned. Here’s my response on things… photo credit: CarbonNYC BOOKS, of course. All kinds, but especially those for children. The perfect “B” book? BABY BRAINS – written [...]
The other morning as I skimmed through the current issue of the Horn Book while doing morning face prep at the sink, I flipped open to a review of Joyce Sidman’s latest poetry collection: Red Sings from the Treetops: A Year in Colors. I love many of Sidman’s collections (particularly Song of the Waterboatman and [...]
Mercy Watson Thinks like a Pig is the 5th book in the early reader series written by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Chris Van Dusen. It is, quite possibly, my favorite so far. Who can resist a pig named Mercy? She loves food, lots of it, and adores buttered toast. Constantly embroiled in some sort [...]
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 Master's degree in Language and Literacy and, later, an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
My first picture book, BLUE ON BLUE, is forthcoming from Beach Lane Books (Simon and Schuster).