The Tassy Walden New Voices in Children’s Literature Awards ceremony is a stellar event. I mean it, this hard-earned recognition for a writer is a moment when the clouds clear and the stars shine and shimmer not on everyone, or that one, but on you.
I was a finalist, and after a friend suggested I try [...]

I love to write poetry with children. At a super fun after-school workshop with K-5th graders at Tabor Community Center, I chose spiders as a topic. I took the children on a spider walk (hunt) outside.  We came inside and did a group warm up by building a yarn/string spider web between us. As each [...]

Authors are imaginary mentors and real support.

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 high [...]