Guest Post by Laura Krauss Melmed I wrote my latest picture book, Before We Met , while channeling the remembered wonder and anticipati...

by Laura Krauss Melmed Midwinter landscapes in my part of the world yield mostly subdued tones of browns and dusty greens sometimes enl...

by Laura Krauss Melmed As I write this exactly one week after the horrific Newtown shootings, in the midst of the frenetic holiday sea...

by Laura Krauss Melmed Last week I worked with a sixth grade class of about twenty students in a single session poetry workshop.   When ...

by Laura Krauss Melmed Picking up on the picture book literacy theme running recently through Pencil Tips, I have been thinking about w...

by Laura Krauss Melmed Summer has always been my favorite season.   I’ve never quite overcome that feeling of slight melancholy that fo...

by Laura Krauss Melmed Six months into 2012, our New Year’s resolutions may have lost some of their luster.   Mine haven’t but that’s o...

by Laura Krauss Melmed Maurice Sendak, one of the true giants of children’s literature, died on May 8 at the age of 83.   This post is ...

by Laura Krauss Melmed The ancient art of poetry and the much, much newer art of composing the Tweet both aspire to pack   lots of punch i...

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 Laura Krauss Melmed A few months ago, I had the good fortune to attend an amazing production of the play, Warhorse, on Broadway .   The...

by Laura Krauss Melmed  This is the first in a series of planned posts on poetic devices.   I’ll start with alliteration, the repetition ...

by Laura Krauss Melmed From Reader to Writer, Teaching Writing Through Classic Children’s Books by Sarah Ellis provides a fascinating glim...

by Laura Krauss Melmed The other day my husband and I climbed a mountain.   It wasn’t a Himalayan peak or even part of the Rockies , but a...