Don’t we all love to create?  Writers have to love the process of creating.  They have to sit down all by themselves day after day (or night) and type words to create a novel.  This may take a year.  When you think of it taking a year it can become a bit daunting, especially when [...]

I’m preparing a power point presentation for a series of sessions at NCTM meetings this autumn. My session is: Stories that Count: Literature in the Math Classroom.
In choosing books to include in the session, I have 2 caveats:         

All books aren’t meant for mathematics. Books shouldn’t be “twisted” in order to suit math instruction purposes. [...]

On jumping back into fiction and starting a novel
I’m a writer coming home. I started in fiction. I love its power to move children; to touch them deep and deeper still. I love spinning characters out of the air, building them layer by layer until they rise from the page to walk into the reader’s [...]

Author Partners with Non-Profit for Fun Family Event
A top priority for many parents, librarians and educators is putting more books into the hands of kids, more words into their heads, and more fuel sparking their imaginations. Libraries offer weekend book clubs, teachers give nightly reading assignments, and parents read aloud to their young children [...]