A Year of Reading

Recipe The yellowed newspaper clipping is attached to an index card with brittle cellophane tape. "Nov. 1949 Women's Day ...

Now that I've started thinking about creative "right brain" ways to expand and enrich the ways I am (and my students will be) ...

I picked up 3 great new picture books last week. Alphablock is going to be my new go-to Baby Gift Book!   It was on display at Cover...

Here are some books being released in January. These are the books I am most excited about this month! Poetry and Picture Books Po...

Thanks to a Facebook post by the amazing Kate Messner,  I discovered the new book Handle With Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey (Nonf...

Winter Sunshine by Mary Lee Hahn SUNSHINE AWARDS The rules: Acknowledge the nominating blogger.
 Share 11 random facts about yoursel...

Franki's thinking ahead post  threatens to makes me feel like an underachiever, but I refuse to go down that road. Sometimes we lead, s...

Check out all the celebration posts at RuthAyresWrites.com -- thanks, Ruth! This week, I'm celebrating all the learning that come...

(Click to enlarge the strips.)  Betsy has the Poetry Friday roundup this week at I Think in Poems . Betsy's a...

Row 1: Impromptu wine and cheese party, just the two of us, on a Saturday afternoon after errands; CFR did charity gift wrap at the W...