A Year of Reading

To My Daughter With Love: No Roof But Sky; From This Soil, For the New Year: Tickets for a Prayer Wheel. Nurture Sweet and Bitter Bark -...

Empty nests are caught in the budding skeleton of the maple tree. First leaves interrupt the criss-cross calligraphy of the bare branches...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo "Mother Hen and Chicks" by Frances Taylor I'M YOUR MOM I'm your mom when you're in...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by the.sprouts LOST AND FOUND I look behind the sofa, I gape under the car, I gaze out in the garden, But...

I have heard about the book ME...JANE by Patrick McDonnell but hadn't gotten around to ordering it. I saw a copy while shopping in San ...

IT'S MY POEM I wrote it. You read it. You like it Or not. If not Then you leave it. But don't you rewrite it. They'r...

Lunch Lady and the Bake Sale Bandit by Jarrett J. Krosoczka Alfred A. Knopf, 2010 review copy purchased for my classroom When all the ...

While in San Antonio this weekend. we visited the local independent children's bookstore, Twig. I always like to visit bookstores in dif...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by deb mae BETWEEN RAIN SHOWERS The boy in the yellow slicker riding his tricycle up and down the driv...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Graham Canny Crafty metaphor is a sly fox, hiding in plain sight. Simple simile is as easy as 1, 2, 3...