I've often wondered how many great minds, inventors, musicians, and artists we've lost because the individual was born into dire poverty...

Boy are you in for a treat this week. Drum roll, please. The amazing Teresa Robeson is visiting with me today! Teresa was lucky enough to...

Every year, I look forward to The Cornell Lab's Feeder Watch citizen science project. I move my laptop into the kitchen for a bit every...

Susan Edwards Richmond is a children’s author and poet. A passionate birder and naturalist, Susan teaches preschool on a farm and...

I love that biographies offer us a window into the adventures, decisions, and struggles of people we admire. It's fun to discover little...

When I was younger my grandmother and I spent hours on the beach looking for interesting rocks, shells, and sand dollars. It's no wonder...

Poetry provides a wonderful vehicle to make inferences, determine themes, and cite textual evidence in complex, yet manageable texts. ~ Michelle Schaub Michelle Schaub is an award-winning children's author. Her children's poetry collection, Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day At The Farmers' Market, won the 2018 Growing Good Kids Award. Fresh-Picked Poetry was also a 2018 Illinois Reads selection and 2018 Wisconsin Ag in the Classroom Book of the Year. In 2020, she will publish her

It's interesting how perspective changes things. Those paper brick building blocks that seemed gigantic when you're a two-year-old and...

It’s crazy that one name appears on the front of a book when things should really read like movie credits. ~ Brendan Wenzel Brendan...

I remember my kids fascination with the fables about how animals got their stripes, shells, or why spiders made webs. Fantastical stories...