Small Reads for Brighters Days
Thanks to Franki at A Year of Reading, I learned that Goodreads.com can show me a cover grid of my books read in 2011. Here are the ones I gave 5 and 4 stars to: Yes, I know–they’re too small to really see. Though it’s fun trying to figure out what some of them are.?And […]
I picked up Book One of an easy reader series called Down Girl and Sit, and it is hysterical. The book is Smarter Than Squirrels, by Lucy Nolan, ill. by Mike Reed (Marshall Cavendish, 2004). The humor and voice are what make this book stand out, so I’ll just share a quick excerpt. The narrator, […]
I was at the Northwoods Children’s Book Conference in northern Wisconsin last week and had a wonderful time! I hope more people attend next year. It’s a terrific opportunity for writers, librarians, and educators to connect. I went a day early and worked on That Freaking Goldilocks Chapter Book, which was good. But then I […]
You might think I’m annoyed with this project, given this post’s title, but I’m really not. It’s myself I’m annoyed with. That’s just my "affectionate" nickname for this whole project now. Anyway, I wrote three chapter book first drafts last November during NaNoWriMo, and one of them was this Goldilocks-related story. I was so excited–I liked the […]
Nikki Grimes’ Dyamonde Daniel books (Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel is the first; Rich, the second, is out; and the third, Almost Zero, comes out in September) have gotten tons of great buzz, so maybe you’re way ahead of me in reading them! Saturday morning, I got up early to grocery shop. I was having […]
