As Teaching Authors end our year exploring our favorite books, I am focusing on historical fiction, and on the making of history. History of...

  I both love and hate doing the "end of the year books" post. I love sharing my favorite books with you, but hate picking just a ...

      I read at least one picture book a day. As a kindergarten teacher, I steer away from picture books that blatantly try and teach my stu...

🌹Howdy, Campers ~ and welcome to Poetry Friday! Today's poem and the link to PF is at the end of this post. In this, our year-end round...

  Once again I shout, “Lucky me!” I meet The Best People doing what I love and loving what I do,  here in our singular Children’s Book Wor...

Happy Poetry Friday! I share a draft of an original poem at the end of this post, along with the link to this week's Poetry Friday roun...

  You may remember my big summer news:   After a particularly nasty fall, I underwent surgery to replace a very sad hip.   I couldn’t take m...