by Mary Quattlebaum Kelly Barnhill’s atmospheric novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon won this year’s Newbery Medal.  In an interview wit...

by Mary Quattlebaum Adam Gidwitz’s new novel The Inquisitor’s Tale is proving as popular as his well-known “Grimm” novels, including A...

by Jacqueline Jules In my picture book, Princess and the Ziz , a princess flies all over the world on the back of a giant yellow bird...

by Laura Gehl When I visit classrooms to read my new picture book Hare and Tortoise Race Across Israel , I remind kids that one way a...

by Mary Quattlebaum Pam Munoz Ryan brings magic and music to a novel about social justice in Echo (Scholastic, 2015, ages 10-14). I t...

by Joan Waites As we have discussed in previous blog posts, the words and images in picture books make up two equal halves of the whole...

by Laura Krauss Melmed By the time we reach adulthood, most of us know (although it’s not always easy to keep it in mind) that the way in w...

by Mary Quattlebaum Fellow blogger Pamela Ehrenberg wrote recently about rituals that can help move us writers and our students more quic...

by Jacqueline Jules While looking over student writing in six different classrooms on the fourth and fifth grade level, I noticed that qui...