. Howdy, Campers! My poem for Poetry Friday lurks below, as does the link to PF. And so the calendar brings us back to our annual serie...

We TeachingAuthors are celebrating three week of Thanksgiving to focus on our favorite authors. Nonfiction books are better t...

With this blog post, I begin an annual Teaching Authors series we call Three Weeks of Thanks-Giving. This year, we decided to focus on our ...

Hazel and Toby Hazel Mitchell, illustrator extraordinaire, rescued a small poodle born into a puppy mill. Toby needed a lot of love...

Karen Grencik ... in search of red foxes. I graduated from the graduate program at Vermont College of Fine Arts Writing for Childr...

     I am fortunate.  In the past fifteen years, I've sold and published a dozen books, more or less. (Let's not talk about the one ...