A Year of Reading

Cowboy and Octopus by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith review copy compliments of an impulse purchase "Oh, goody! A new one by ...

Tap Dancing on the Roof SIJO (Poems) by Linda Sue Park I am TOTALLY in love with this new poetry book by Linda Sue Park. From the inside fl...

Christmas. The catalogs have started to come. The displays are starting to edge out Halloween and dwarf Thanksgiving. And the Christmas bo...

I am a huge Jonathan Kozol fan. I had no idea that he has been on a partial fast since July as a way to protest NCLB reauthorization . I...

And Mary Lee is a part of the Graphic Novels nominating committee ! (She is becoming quite the expert on this genre that I still don't q...

Poetry Panels have been announced. Franki is judging. Go Franki!

I am so pathetically behind in blog reading. How far behind am I, you ask? I just went to Bloglines for the first time in I Don't Know...

Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones review copy compliments of Candlewick Press I'm not much of a fashion maven...

Here's a possible cure for the AYP Blues in my Monday Poetry Stretch poem. I'm not sure, however, that the politicians would go f...

The Monday Poetry Stretch at The Miss Rumphius Effect is blues poetry. Tricia listened to blues music to get in the mood to write. The re...