A Matched Pair for Story Writing – Perfect Picture Book Friday

I rarely feature two books in the same post, but these two work so...

Authors for Children and Their Books

As a children’s book author, I vow to protect the letter E from being...

A River of Dust – Kidquake presentation

Hello, everyone!! Popping in early this week to announce that the San Francisco Public...

How to Hatch a Reader – Perfect Picture Book Friday

Need a book that will help guide and smooth out the “learning to read”...

Family Downtime & The Last Bookstore

Hello everyone! Taking a break this week to enjoy my son being home from...

Show Way – Perfect Picture Book Friday #PPBF

Going back 15 years, today, because I just read a beautiful autobiographical story told...

Edgar’s Second Word – Perfect Picture Book Friday

Sometimes I wander through the children’s section of the library and wait for a...

Kidquake – Dream Big!

Litquake San Francisco, an annual literary festival comprising 850+ authors and hundreds of events...

Reading Gender Into It – Children’s Books and Beyond

There’s an ongoing discussion in the kid lit world about why boys don’t want...

Umberto Eco – On Memory, Books, and Computers

Umberto Eco died on February 19, 2016. He was a brilliant man who wrote...