by Laura Gehl Except When They Don’t is written by Laura Gehl and illustrated by Joshua Heinsz. The book is about how girls always lo...

by Jacqueline Jules Writers of all ages are inspired by the simple suggestion to imagine themselves as a different entity. Model the pr...

by Jacqueline Jules I have recommended Gary Soto before in a Pencil Tips post about his short story collection, Baseball in April . But...

Guest Post by Madelyn Rosenberg When I wrote my how-to-behave books, I wanted to invoke the idea of a vintage manners book, the kind w...

by Jacqueline Jules In August, I was very pleased to see my poems, “The Math Beast” and “Thunder” featured in Issue 2 of a new online p...

by Jacqueline Jules While picture books are always great writing models, short stories can be very effective, too, especially for the...

Guest Post by Yvonne Ventresca In my young adult novel,   Pandemic (Sky Pony Press, 2014) , only a few people know what caused Lili...

by Mary Quattlebaum Aesop’s Fables is a classic that should be part of every home and school library, not only for its centuries-long...

by Jane Harrington I recently returned from a residency in the lettered city of Pittsburgh where I spent a couple of weeks buzzing aro...

by Jacqueline Jules Cover Art by Katherine Janus Kahn Long, long, ago, in a galaxy far removed from Smart Phones and the Interne...

by Jacqueline Jules Looking for a way to spice up Friday lessons in the elementary school classroom? Try The Poetry Friday Anthology: P...

by Jacqueline Jules Before our oldest son moved to New York City and married a New York girl, my husband and I were pretty timid when...

by Mary Quattlebaum We tend to take the letters of the alphabet for granted.  Face it, we’ve sung the ABC song umpteen times as parents or...

by Jacqueline Jules As part of a unit on following instructions, I read the picture book How To Lose All Your Friends by Nancy Carlson to...