by Laura Gehl Get your class thinking about writing fun, humorous nonfiction with Stacy McAnulty’s Earth: My First 4.54 Billion Years ...

guest post by Marty Rhodes Figley My newest book, Jim the Wonder Dog , is about a Depression Era Llewellin setter that many believed wa...

by Jacqueline Jules “If we can’t agree on anything, how can we stay one country?” “But we could have even bigger problems, if we brea...

Guest Post by Moira Rose Donohue When I was a kid, I read fiction with two very limited exceptions: I read books about dogs and balle...

Guest Post by Laurie Wallmark Whether your students are writing fiction or nonfiction, there might be an unfamiliar word, concept, or ...

by Mary Quattlebaum The Power of Words.   Students have heard that phrase so often that it sounds like a cliché.  Marc Tyler Nobleman ...

guest blog by Karen Deans My two books, Playing to Win and Swing Sisters , are picture book biographies based on the lives of some rem...

Susan L. Roth , the award winning author and illustrator of 45 books including Hands Around the Library, Parrots Over Puerto Rico, and The...

Guest Post by Moira Rose Donohue Sometimes it can be hard for students to read nonfiction—and even harder to write it.  But nonfiction ...

GUEST POST  by Catherine Reef I don’t recall the issue we were debating. It was too long ago, and now it hardly matters. But an idea ha...

guest post by Alison Formento When I write for magazines or newspapers I must fact check all information I include in an article or e...

by Jane Harrington In my last post I gaily embraced the creativity of cutting and pasting summer scraps into journals to spur original ...