Tag Your Dreams: Poems of Play and Persistence celebrates being active, reaching goals, and learning limits. The poems employ figurative ...

by Karen Leggett Abouraya Maya Lin has built monuments in clay, granite, water, earth, glass and wood. Her most famous monument is the ...

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...

by Joan Waites We have all heard the excuse “the dog ate my homework” when a child forgets to bring in an assignment to school.  But, w...

guest post by Jodi Moore When I visit schools, I like to pose a question: “If a football player runs the ball for 100 yards and s...

by Mary Quattlebaum How to connect writing and science?  Both are important areas for learning for students of all ages.  At the same t...

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...

by Marcia Strykowski I always used to think ‘Write What You Know’ was the best method for writing a story, but sometimes it’s surprisin...

by Karen Leggett Abouraya During a recent visit to a Van Gogh exhibit with my young adult daughter, we listened to a cell phone descrip...

by Alison Ashley Formento It’s summer and when you’re not outside enjoying the beach or eating ice cream, you might be heading inside t...

by Joan Waites With snow, sleet and rain still in the forecast, it’s sometimes hard to imagine that spring will ever arrive. One way to...

by Joan Waites I recently had the pleasure of interviewing author Nancy Kelly Allen about her latest picture book release, FIRST FIRE, (...