Alice suggested that I post a link to the poem Miss Molly Mop as it appears in Highlights September issue. http://www.highlightskids.com/Magazine/Sept09/h10909_mollyMop.asp Highlights has been a favourite of mine forever; seeing my own work appear within its fun filled pages is always a thrill. You know, as I was writing this I realized that I didn’t include the entire name [...]

Foul language, to be precise. I write for children, so I stay clear of all those Bad Words. You know, the ones George Carlin used for a whole comedy routine. Plus many more. But the thing is, despite our desire to keep those Bad Words out of sight and sound, kids see them, hear them [...]

Honestly, I was planning to see the movie. I mean, who knows? Sometimes the movie is even better than the book, or at least wonderful in its own way. The Wizard of Oz certainly holds its own. I like Disney’s Pinocchio. So I was going to give Where The Wild Things Are a chance, when [...]

The project of the week in my son’s current summer camp is to collect “new and gently used books” for Read To Grow, whose mission is explained in the cover letter as “to provide books to children.” Curious, in the light of Kate’s recent blog about new media and books going online, on phones and [...]

Earlier this month I shook off my summer inertia, hopped a Metro-North train, and hied myself to NYC to attend a jam-packed, standing-room only panel discussion on “What’s Hot and What’s Not: Trends in Children’s Book Publishing,” sponsored by the Children’s Book Committee of the Authors Guild. The panel was made up of : Kim [...]