So reads the tagline on author/illustrator Meghan McCarthy’s website and I couldn’t agree more. Though I’d skimmed through Strong Man: The Story of Charles Atlas (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007) in the book store soon after it was published, only recently did I pick up a copy to share with my third grade class. Here’s what [...]
Okay, so I’m still in the Back-to-School cocoon. But I’m enjoying my third graders and hope – soon – to get back to the *rest* of my life. In the meantime, I expect in the next few days I’ll post about several terrific books I picked up at a recent SCBWI event. And a post [...]
I am living in the “Back-to-School” Cocoon. New students, new grade level, new work. Every day I am busy busy. My nights are consumed with reading, planning, correcting. My days are a rush of conversations, notes, lessons, and general hubbub. The sum total? One terrific bunch of 3rd grade students and one happy teacher!
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).