I remember when our neighborhood was being built. My kids were little and one of our fun activities was go "peeking" and watch as the...

“I’ve always maintained that more can be said or felt in eight or 10 lines than sometimes in an entire novel.” ~ Lee Bennett Hopkins The...

The subject of this week's Perfect Picture Book Friday pick is near and dear to my heart. Anyone who knows me, knows I love animals and...

I love talking with kids of all ages! ~ Maria Gianferrari Maria Gianferrari is a picture book reading/writing, tea-drinking, dog-loving,...

Well dear readers, what a year this has been! Besides traveling to three great writing conferences, I've been privileged to "meet" and...

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

So, I'm shaking things up a bit this week. Good thing it's my blog. I'm going to do a combination interview/book review post on both...

After interviewing Priscilla, I really looked forward to seeing where her head spun as she looked at the wires between her television and...

Trecking trough a blustery, torrentially rainy day, I fought my way to Nina Laden's book launch. After I dried out, it was a lot of fun....