A Year of Reading

November is always such a gallop, what with mammo/onco appointments, parent conferences, report cards, 5th grade concert...but lookie t...

Last month, there was an online conversation around the picture book, A Fine Dessert by Emily Jenkins and Sophie Blackall that expanded my...

periodically the carousel slows and stops blur refocuses ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2015  I've been away from Poetry Friday for...

Top 10 Famous People I Heard Speak  or With Whom I Ate Dinner Peter Sis Vicki Vinton Allison Bechdel Kate Messner Laurel Snyder...

This year, NCTE Children's Book Awards were announced at the children's luncheon at convention. It was great fun to have them an...

We're taking a week off for professional learning. Hopefully, we'll see many of you in Minneapolis at NCTE's Annual Co...

W hen in doubt, use your I magination to discover what it is you L ove with a passion that cannot be D efined......

Stacey Ross and I wrote a recent post for the NCTE Blog.  It is about the NCTE Book Awards. You can find it here . Looking forward to hea...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Praveen steady drip, drip, drip annoying, continuous rain...and sinuses ©Mary Lee Hahn, 201...

I was able to see an advanced copy of this book over the summer and fell in love with it. And when the real book arrived last week, I ...