A Year of Reading

Flickr Creative Commons photo by VirtualEyeSee Choosing Teams There are owls in the neighborhood now. Two barred owls wondering, ...

I'm on the Charlotte Huck Award (for Outstanding Fiction for Children) committee. This is what my basement book shelf looks like: ...

TEACHING I teach, I watch. They fall, I catch. I lift, they soar. I brood, they hatch. They spread, I gath...

...although I feel slightly ridiculous because the contrast between this and the book Franki posted about earlier this week is...um...stunni...

The book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo was recommended to me by a few friends early last spring. I bought it, put it o...

The More You Love The more you love, the harder you work. The harder you work, the more you accomplish. The more you accomplish,...

I love discovering great new nonfiction books, especially when a great new book leads me to an author who is new-to-me. Last week I pi...

The other Lessons From Bike Rides are here I walked up to the door of the health club and saw the sign: Pool Closed for Repairs. There...

Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds edited by Billy Collins illustrated by David Allen Sibley Columbia Univer...

I had the opportunity to hear David Wiesner speak at the Whole Language Umbrella conference this past summer, and when I saw that he has ...