Small Reads for Brighters Days
By Laura
Last night, I was working on materials for an online class I’m teaching, and my husband walked in. "I opened a package for you by mistake," he said. He gets tons of packages every day, so when UPS, FedEx, DSL, et al. come calling, the packages usually get put in a pile for Randy without […]
By Laura
A while ago, I posted about the series that I wrote Write Your Own Poetry for being nominated for an award from the Association of Educational Publishers. My editor emailed me last week to say that the series won! The Write Your Own series from Compass Point Books won the Distinguished Achievement Award in […]
By Laura
I’m extremely excited to be able to share, finally, that I just signed and returned a contract to Clarion for a second picture book poetry collection! This collection of poems about books has kind of an interesting genesis, as I wrote 13 of the poems to submit for an anthology. Not one of them […]
By Laura
I got a nice email from an editor at Compass Point Books a couple of weeks ago: Hi Laura: Here’s a great way to start the week: Write Your Own Selected as 2008 AEP Distinguished Achievement Award FinalistAssociation of Educational Publishers has selected Write Your Own (Reading and Language Instruction category) as finalist in the […]