Today, I'm the last TeachingAuthor to blog about the "five books that have most influenced me." (See below for an update on m...

      Upon learning of this week's topic I thought, "How many times have I answered the 'what are your favorite books?' que...

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraim’s Daughter Longstocking. Lucky Pippi lived wi...

This week’s Teaching Author blog topic, sparked by Scholastic’s “ You Are What You Read” website , seemed easy enough: list the 5 books that...

Our neighborhood book club met this week to party.  We ate homemade toffee, we drank lots of wine, we left our children with our husbands, a...

xxx Howdy and Happy Poetry Friday!   There's a teeny tiny Writing Workout and a not-so-teeny poem below! A recent School Library Jour...