Yesterday I was talking with a school librarian friend in her office when a third grade teacher came by requesting a picture book about “inc...

Alison Jay in her book 1 2 3: A Child’s First Counting Book encourages children to really look at things. With all of the details she inclu...

Do you remember when we were growing up, and at the beginning of each school year, the (usually) well-intentioned teacher would ask us to wr...

Kate DiCamillo has just published her fifth novel, The Magician’s Elephant . She writes two pages a day. She calls that a “manageable, reach...

For those paying very close attention... I did not send out a newsletter aimed at ages 8-12 today because there is a very important publishi...

Personal space is a difficult concept for a child (and, let’s face it, it’s even difficult for some adults). How much space do we need to fe...

Before children can read words, they are absorbing clues about stories in other ways, and often more quickly than we think. We could specula...