The Greenwich Workshop Press has just released Horse, Indian, Wolf featuring the art of Judy Larson, and written by our very own Kathleen Kudlinski. The book is filled with concealed pictures in 25 of Judy Larson’s spectacular paintings about the American West (do you see the eagle on the cover?). It is accompanied by text [...]

I am an author-mother in a predicament: I need to ask my son to stop reading. That’s right, to stop reading. My son wasn’t one of those very early or very precocious readers, and there were moments when I wondered if he’d take to it at all. Well into first grade, he was happy to [...]

Today is the official release date for Come Fall. I’m very excited. The novel has gotten great reviews from Publishers Weekly (starred!) and Horn Book Magazine. I’ll be throwing a book party on August 28 at the Alphabet Garden Bookstore to celebrate its release. But today, nothing much happens. There won’t be confetti. Or a [...]

All of Your Messages Have Been Erased. Miss Fox’s Class Earns a Field Trip. Incomparable treasure, gifts from beloved friends, these books on my desktop inspire me to write. And intimidate me to silence: peering down at the covers hovering on the ledge above my keyboard, words seem inadequate. Vivian Shipley arrives for dinner with [...]

I loved poetry as a child. My father read us picture books written in rhyme; my siblings and I read to each other Hilaire Bellock’s The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts and Cautionary Tales for Children; and we studied Struwwelpeter to keep us appalled. But the poetry books I kept coming back to were A.A. [...]

Apologia In this spot My post is not. But stay tuned, friends – Writer’s block Always ends. So take a look Another time. You’ll find I’ve blogged – And not in rhyme.