As promised, here is my official announcement of my new weekly promise! Every Friday I will offer new freebies for teachers, librarians, and parents (they can use them, but they're actually for the kids ). Sometimes it'll be a coloring…
Where do I begin? Okay, I'll start at the very beginning. That's a very good place to start.
Let's move on to the night I finally arrived at the Low Country Boil that the library throws for everyone the night before…
I wrote a fabulous, funny entry and what happened to it? I hadn't logged into Blogger, so when I clicked PUBLISH POST it all disappeared.
Quickly now, because I have to go pack. Why, you wonder? Because I'm going to the…
I play a game with myself whenever I'm in a situation that is troubling me. It started a long time ago, but I became conscious of it a few years back when I was sick for many months (it turned…
Toad Hill reviews is a fabulous book review blog for and by tweens. The reviews sound as though they are written by much older kids - it's obvious these kids are big readers. I may be a bit prejudice though...they…
I've been wanting to tell you all about this fabulous award, but since Tracy Grand from JacketFlap.com sent out this announcement, I thought I'd let Tracy do the talking (blogging?) for me!
Nominations for the third annual Children's and Young…
My fall newsletter focuses on school visits so a recent email that ricocheted around various writer and illustrator listservs was of particular interest. That, and it was stunning in its chauvinism.
Most authors I know try to work in a number…
I understand that language is a living thing, subject to change as we humans use it. But in the last decade or so, it seems to me that proper grammar has gone the way of typewriters. I think it's because…