Small Reads for Brighters Days
I’m participating in Miss Rumphius’ poetry stretch this week, and it’s a sonnet. I’m taking part in that same poetry challenge she mentions, and I could also use some sonnet practice. Since I haven’t written one in, you know, decades. What on earth have I gotten myself into? Anyway, I have a sister coming into town […]
I had heard of Mike Wohnoutka and seen several of his enticing, saturated-with-color books. But I don’t know if I had ever officially met him before a Children’s Literature Network event last year. Arthur Levine came to Minneapolis and sat down for a conversation with 30 or so local published authors and illustrators. Then most of us headed […]
Lauren Stringer Lauren is a Minnesota author/illustrator who’s participating in Robert’s Snow this year! Two of my favorite books that she illustrated are Our Family Tree (by Lisa Westberg Peters) and Castles, Caves, and Honeycombs (by Linda Ashman). The beautiful Winter Is the Warmest Season, which came out in 2006, was her first […]
I was reading a poetry collection last week called Dying Old and Dying Young, by Susan Williams, and I got a kick out of her poem, “Personals.” Personals Looking for a man who doesn’t know his sign or resting heart rate; who only runs to catch a bus; can’t tell sushi from raw fish. Thinks […]
Rick Chrustowski I’m excited to be taking part in Blogging for the Cure, where we’re featuring just some (but you can discover the rest of them when you visit the auction) of the wonderful illustrators and snowflakes of Robert’s Snow, an auction of illustrated snowflakes to raise funds for cancer research. Today I’m featuring Rick […]
So, I read about the double dactyl form of poetry on Kelly Fineman’s blog on Poetry Friday and decided to try one this weekend. I had never even heard of it! Yesterday, as my kids were were shopping for inappropriate Halloween costumes (who knew the devil wore such a short skirt?), I plunked myself down in […]
After posting Mary Oliver’s Alligator Poem last week, I decided to try my hand at writing a poem about my biggest fear. Alligators are a phobia of mine, but not something I really worry about here in Minnesota! I knew my greatest fear was bad news about one of my daughters. Horrible news from a […]
