We can’t always go around bestowing sunshine and rainbows. Some days are just “blah,” and it can be hard to find the motivation or initiative to do much of anything. But doing nothing has NEVER been an inspiring activity. If you’re doing nothing, you can’t find the oomph to write or read or create. So!…
Do you remember these lines: “You like my special chocolate cake, don’t you, Bogtrotter? It’s rich and delicious, isn’t it, Bogtrotter?” They are from Matilda by Roald Dahl. It’s the scene where Miss Trunchbull summons poor Bruce Bogtrotter to the stage in the school auditorium so she can humiliate him for eating her chocolate cake….
Today I have for you an interview with an author of graphic novels. It’s always so interesting for me to learn about the creative process of other writers. As I mentioned in a previous blog, I’m not generally a reader of graphic novels. Maybe that’s some of you too? Anyway, after talking with children’s librarians…
It’s back-to-school month for a lot of kids. I was just talking to a friend, and we decided we were lucky to have been part of the generation of kids who didn’t have to go back until after Labor Day. Far more civilized. Of course, we got our summer start later, but all that faded…
I just finished reading A Girl, A Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon by Karen Roman Young. It’s a fun story about 11-year-old Pearl who wants to save her small library in her equally small New York neighborhood. After the library loses the head of its claim to fame—the statue of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay—the…
