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 [...]
Read full post...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 of [...]
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.