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Celebrity princesses and other no-no’s of picture book writers
So, when they give out advice at the SCBWI conference, here are a few things they tell picture book writers. Don’t write in rhyme, don’t write an ABC book, don’t write a princess book, and don’t read...
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Donkeys and Asses and Children’s Delicate Ears
I remember reading a book aloud to a third grade class in my first year of teaching. Technically, I was student teaching, but full-time student teaching in the middle of Dorchester, MA, counts as...
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Can I borrow your Frindle?
I picked up this book one night when I went to bed and didn’t turn out the lights until the last page. A really fun read. It’s easy to see why the “frindle”, both in the sense of the word as used in...
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the furious dragon that blows fire and is not nice
I read a great book this week. It was penned on my living room carpet (the one wearing three years worth of stains from juice boxes and wine boxes, unsupervised sharpie markers, vomiting and...
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making the world better with “magic trash”
Occasionally, there’s a picture book that’s much more than a picture book. Something for kids and adults who really want to learn about the world. Something colorful, but also political, social, and...
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You don’t have to wear your glove on the correct hand to read these books
Is there anything better than standing in the outfield? The sun on your back and a glove in your hand? If you are a baseball fan, you might not think so. But I think I recently found something slightly...
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A free book for your scientific (or unscientific) girl
Getting girls into science is a big deal. I wrote an article about this in ParentMap after a great study was published by the AAUW (American Association of University Women). One of the biggest...
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Did you notice it’s an election year?
Are you going to be yelling at your TV tonight and want your kids to understand why? Here are my picks for some great election and political books to start talking to your kids about what it means to...
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Be someone else. Then understand them.
We know books can take us places. We know they can introduce us to new people. But we often overlook the fact that they allow us to be someone else. Not just to meet them, gaze into their life for a...
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dancing, dazzling Josephine Baker
by Wendy Lawrence I love a book that you can’t easily categorize, and this is one of them. At first glance, you think it’s a picture book, bright and boldly covered. But it’s also thick, almost like a...
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