Reporting on the Hudson Book Festival in the post below got me thinking about the value of events like it for us, the authors. Beyond the obvious… During my many years of doggedly working toward becoming published, I was, among other things, a Book Fair Mom. Helping to run and engineer a school book fair [...]

Alice, Cat and I were so impressed with the first-ever Hudson Book Festival last month, in Hudson, NY. We were among over 50 authors and illustrators of children’s books, with over 4000 visitors attending. All three of us chatted with our readers, signed books, and presented workshops during the day. Alice spent much of her [...]

Parents of young children often ask why mathematicians stress pattern recognition and why the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics follows this lead by including pattern recognition in its teaching standards for elementary grades. Pattern recognition is important because it leads children to identify and predict the results of iterative functions. This may sound intimidating, but the [...]

I loved seeing and hearing about Marianne’s new book, ADDverse, a delightful math and poetry  Read-and-See! From patterns to rhymes to the structure of three-dimensional shapes, the material is exactly what my first grade son has been loving and learning since Kindergarten.

Wednesday, June 24 at 4 pm.  Author/illustrator Kate Duke will be at the Derby Neck Library in Derby, CT  to talk about her books and draw lots of pictures.  For kids ages 4 and up.  Free.  Derby Neck Library, 307 Hawthorne Avenue, Derby CT  06418. Ph: 203-734-1492.