A Year of Reading

Flickr Creative Commons Photo boiling water tea leaves understand relax ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2017 Welcome to the Poetry Fri...

The winner of the 2017 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award® is After the Fall (How Humpty Got Back Up Again) by Dan Santat Roaring Broo...

Unsplash photo by Autumn Mott early morning walk constant chatter of leaf-fall first hard frost ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2017 ...

The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors by Drew Daywalt illustrated by Adam Rex Balzer + Bray, 2017 First of all, this is the most fun re...

Both of us will be just a tad busy this coming week at NCTE, so we won't be blogging. We hope to connect with many blog readers, Poe...

Unsplash photo by Charles Deluvio I'm the type who'd rather have dumplings than blossoms Issa, 1814 Unspl...

SLICES OF LIFE , by Grant Snider ...for the rest of this visual poem, click here . Wouldn't it be fun to give stude...

I (Don't) Like Snakes by Nicola Davies Illustrated by Luciano Lozano Candlewick Press, 2015 The little girl doesn't like sna...

Unsplash Photo by Sylwia Bartyzel The Thing About Maps words by Seth Godin ,  poemizing by Mary Lee Hahn Sometimes, when we...

Two books with great dads who both understand and validate the fears of their children. Lily's Cat Mask by Julie Fortenberry Vik...