Beyond the Book: SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR by Matthew Quick Here's the description: Amber Appleton lives in a bus. Ever since her mom...

This is doll's food: the sandwiches are broken up chips, the salad is cabbage with the threadlike tops from a bulb of fennel, and the ca...

Over at Wild Rose Reader , I have some poems about grass--an original acrostic, an original "things to do" list poem, and a poem b...

The Foundation for Children's Books in Boston is one of my very favorite organizations. They hold a series of lectures with various chi...

Alert! I now have TWO dresses in my hot hands to decide between for the Newbery Banquet! Both are beautiful (to me, anyway). Both have fun s...

This is a belated post (I'm always playing catch-up, I feel...), but wanted to do a quick wrap-up of the Book Expo America (BEA) festivi...

And, if that doesn't amuse you, another side of Mr.Mainstay, aka Dan Ackroyd: So how would you make either of these funny if all you had...

Grace often shows us dresses and outfits that she's considering wearing to special events. I thought I'd show you a picture of the ...

After mailing in the jacket painting for A Photo for Greta a few weeks ago, I just got the layout back from the designer. I love the pink ...

So I've been pretty busy and have lots of things to blog about-- BEA, my last school visit of the year, visiting my parents in Upstate N...

Happy Memorial Day, everyone! Especially to our troops, veterans, and family members and friends of the aforementioned. I moved from Manha...

I’ve been extremely busy with a number of things lately. I haven’t had much time for blogging—but I didn’t want to miss Poetry Friday again ...

Just finished this one the other day. I love doing spots, so tiny and self contained and simple. A few more weeks to go on A Photo for Greta...

On Sunday afternoon BRG friend Alissa offered me an extra ticket she had to Cartoonapalooza , a fundraiser at the Northampton Academy for t...

This cracked me up! I really think Fuse aka Betsy is meant to do TV. Thanks for the great review and for doing it using a computer robot voi...

Authors and illustrators do school visits all the time, but how often to editors do school visits? Uh, never? Well, a few weeks ago, as a fa...

The Ling and Ting Book Trailer : Official release date is July 1st, 2010 but if you come to my party you get it before everyone else!

As Anna wrote in her post , some of the BRG got together this weekend. Destiny or fate, most of the time it was the four of us that were bor...

...is the standard line, but this time I REALLY mean it. Because the kind people at Papertigers have nominated ME for the Astrid Lindgren ...

Jesus, I don't know what to say anymore. I can't get any publicity but then a guy like Mr. "yo-yo master" comes along and ...