Saturday, July 16, 2011. At Cozy Up and Read. And so long to The Almost Librarian. Monday, September 13, 2010. The latest issue of Literacy Lava is available! To access Literacy Lava, please follow.

Cricket in the Thicket Book Trailer. Here is the book Trailer for my new book. What do you think? Cricket in the Thicket. A Piece of Interior Art from My New Book. A Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company. Coming Out May 9th 2017.

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Show along with co-host David Eslick. During my parts, I mostly talked about books and literacy and my new releases. I even had a chance to read a poem from A PLACE TO START A FAMILY and two from CRAWLY SCHOOL FOR BUGS. Again, our thanks to Larry and David.

Sharing Information About Writing and Illustrating for Children. Based on the colourkey, I colour up the whol.

Saturday, October 20, 2012. This blog has been vacant for a couple of years, but I have officially moved my web presence to my new website and blog. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. I really did it! 34 Picture Book ideas in 30 days! Some of them are more fleshed out than others, but I have 2 that are especially begging to be written NOW, NOW, NOW! I keep telling them to shush, I have a thesis to finish.

Due the establishment of a bigger and better national website, we are moving to.

A blog about my life as a writer in the neighbourhood and what the neighbourhood kids write me. Whether set in rural Pennsylvania or Northern Arizona, my novels are based on personal experience or archives and oral history. I blog about the author experience and the stories I find myself stumbling into, working from home in a neighborhood with nearly a dozen kids.

I wrote the following post and saved it as a draft back in July when my world was in an uproarious change. But really it was just the first of an onslaught of changes. Trying really hard to unquestioningly follow. Instead of crippling fear .

Tips on Tapping into the Magic of Your Muse. Friday, February 9, 2018. The Basic Forms of Poetry. Listen to their games of jump rope, hopscotch, one-potato-two-potato, and Red Rover and you will hear a lyrical litany of joyful patterns of poetic rhythm and rhyme. One of the most basic patterns of poetry is the couplet.