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IRA – Saturday night – Dinner with Lerner folks and the Poetry Olio

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I shared some highlights of my Friday night and Saturday day at the IRA Conference recently in New Orleans. By late afternoon Saturday, I was pretty exhausted. And a little bit nervous. I was going to dinner with some Lerner folks, who had hosted my signing that afternoon and helped support my trip to IRA. […]

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IRA – Saturday

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[See yesterday’s post for my Friday at IRA.] Saturday at IRA, I went to a fantastic session called The Power of Poetry to Provide Teachable Moments (I’m going to do a separate post on that soon). I was with Janet Fagal, and we had a blast–and the presenters performed “The Middle’s Lament,” from BookSpeak! I […]

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IRA – Friday

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I was in New Orleans for the International Reading Association recently and thought I’d share some pictures and thoughts over this week and next. After a fun Friday day, including lunch at NOLA and a ride on the paddleboat Natchez,?I went to a get-together hosted by April Whatley Bedford, a fabulous teacher educator in New […]

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Gayle A. Zeiter Children’s Literature Conference

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Last month, I went to the University of Nevada Las Vegas to speak at the Gayle A. Zeiter Children’s Literature Conference. It was a fantastic experience, and I wanted to share a few pictures. I had a wonderful time presenting about children’s poetry and sharing easy ways to dive into interactive poetry reading and writing […]

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Orbis Pictus Awards [nonfiction monday]

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I had a fantastic time at NCTE in Boston recently, and one of my favorite events was the Orbis Pictus session, where the current?Orbis Pictus committee’shared the winner of the 2013 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, as well as the?honor books and recommended books. It was great fun seeing educators share […]

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[nf monday] A Leaf Can Be… at NCTE

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?I’ll be going to NCTE in Boston soon, and I can’t wait! I’ll be there sharing my nonfiction picture book, A LEAF CAN BE…. On the agenda so far: A’signing for A LEAF CAN BE… on Friday from 4-5 p.m. at the Lerner Booth #822 A table at the Books for Children Luncheon on Saturday […]

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[on the road] Pics from Recent Events

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I’ve put up some pics on Facebook from recent events. You should be able to see the albums by clicking the links below, whether you’re a Facebooker or not. (But if you are on Facebook, please Like my Page when you visit:>) ALA Poetry Blast Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell’s ALA poetry session featuring the […]

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[poetry friday] “Fire” (by Laura Purdie Salas)

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Check out the cool printable that the Poetry Friday Anthology folks created for my cinquain poem, “Fire!” As we?already know, and as sad national news is proving more than ever this week,?firefighters are truly heroes who risk their lives for our safety.?(This printable was created before that news broke.) . They have a number of […]

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[my writing life] School Librarian Love

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I had a lovely time last Friday, giving a two-hour poetry inservice to about 25 librarians of the Catholic Schools of St. Paul. I wore sandals because–well, because it was May, and I had a decent pedicure (a rare occasion). But then it snowed all the way there. I wasn’t sure I was at the […]

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[My Writing Life] Books for Breakfast

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Saturday morning, after a bit of driveway shoveling and dropping off my daughter for a broomball tournament, I went to Children’s Literature Network‘s annual Books for Breakfast event. Twenty-five authors and illustrators give a two-minute peek each into their current work to an audience of 200+ teachers, media specialists, etc. And me. I wasn’t presenting […]

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