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BOOK REVIEW: Old Blue Is My Home
My SCBWI-AZ Book Look and SCBWI-SF PB Craft Discussion groups looked at three books this month with themes of “home.”...
STUCK! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits Review
Hello, Poetry Friday friends! 2025 finds me posting less --but still working hard on my poetry. I plan to try to...
Popi’s All Souls Song
I clearly remember the day my nana died. My mom and dad sat the five of us down and despite their tears spoke of the...
A Poetryaction
Leslie Barnard Booth's lyrical love letter about the transformation of a stone made for a wonderful opportunity to...
Book Review: A Stone Is a Story
As picture book writers, we know there’s the “through-line” (this story is about…) and the “heart-line” (this story is...
The Big Box of Books
It's Poetry Friday! Please visit Margaret at Reflections on the Teche. She has the round up links for all of our...
#50PreciousWords
My entry for Vivian Kirkfield's 2023 #50PreciousWords International Contest:Once again, Vivian is using this fabulous...
POETRY FRIDAY: World Kindness Day
This Sunday, November 13th,has been designatedWorld Kindness Day!An international holidayto promoteKINDNESSthroughout...
CK Malone: Their Process
Plotter? Pantser? Up all night? How does a picture book manuscript come to be? CK Malone on their writing...
CK Malone: Hook, Heart, Takeaway
As a bigender, neurodiverse, kidlit author, CK Malone breaks barriers in presenting a character who longs for a...
CK Malone: What Excites? What Terrifies?
They should feel excited. Afterall, they are a debut picture book author. But CK Malone is also...