“You should’ve won a . . .” a student complimented me during my recent virtual visit to her private school. Right after her, other students in fifth through eighth grade named other awards they [...]
Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey are a dynamic duo of brothers who are making a serious splash in the picture book world. Their first book, The Old Truck, won several awards and received multiple [...]
Every March, we celebrate young artists of all forms – it’s Youth Art Month! There are so many ways to bring art into the classroom, and there are plenty of reasons we should, too. As a secondary [...]
This year’s International Women’s Day campaign theme is #ChooseToChallenge. The IWD website states, “A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts [...]
The new year is off to a spectacular start for Carole Boston Weatherford’s books. Her title BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom was named a 2021 Newbery Honor Book. The same day, her [...]
Spring is the time for new beginnings, which makes it the perfect time for stories of new love. The romance genre continues to be popular for high school students, and these novels are available [...]
There aren’t many children’s book authors who have written close to 200 nonfiction books and not a single fiction title, so it’s no surprise that one of the most common questions children ask me [...]
