Teacher Talk

At the culmination of every year, I ask graduating seniors to pass along some sage advice to future students in a short essay. Invariably, almost all of them tell their fellow Stoneman Douglas [...]

 You may know Melissa Stewart as an award-winning author of more than 190 science books for kids, including her latest picture book Fourteen Monkeys: A Rain Forest Rhyme, illustrated by Caldecott [...]

All fiction can transport the reader to another time and place. Historical fiction requires a balance of creativity and factual research on real people and events to tell a unique story. [...]

Where do stories come from? Inspiration. Well, where does inspiration come from? Some might think it just plops into your head like a lightning bolt. After eleven years of writing, I’ve learned [...]

You may wonder why fifty of today’s leading children’s nonfiction authors have come together to write a book for educators. After all, our target audience is usually young readers. It’s because [...]