Waiting for the print-publishing world to settle down and start buying again a a real downer. You can start to spend way too much time trying to read the minds of editors and publishers. You wonder if you should change your style. Switch subjects? Do a complete rewrite of the manuscript you love?  And surely [...]

April is National Poetry Month! Celebrate with: Videos featuring the Children’s Poet Laureate, Mary Ann Hoberman, from The Poetry Foundation The International Reading Association, lesson plans on “Composing and Performing Found Poetry“ Activites from The Academy of American Poets Activities and more from Reading Rockets Interviews with 36 poets from The Miss Rumphius Effect 30 Poets/30 Days, new poetry [...]

Any children’s book lovers in or around southern CT and RI, with free time this weekend and next? October is a big month around here, with two amazing Book Festivals coming up. This Saturday in Providence is The Rhode Island Festival of Children’s Books and Authors, with an all-star lineup of authors and illustrators – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Stop in at Mystic Seaport during Lobster Days and meet Connecticut resident Cat Urbain, author of Manuel and the Lobsterman.