We are at last getting settled in our new city! Its so gorgeous here, I could spend hours wandering around the different neighborhoods takin...

So I was incredibly honored to be one the authors at the Boston Public Library's Literary Lights Event this past Sunday: One of the bes...

This past weekend I flew down to Charlotte, NC for the SCBWI Carolinas conference. We all promised not to blog or tweet any details, so inst...

Last night a four-year old I babysit for exclaimed, angrily and dramatically: "For the love of mice!"' Then he said he wanted...

I read with interest Alvina's post Speak Loudly the other day. I was really touched by the poem Listen that Laurie Halse Anderson wro...

I've been busy working at the bookstore for the past few days so I haven't been able to get to the blog but now I have and I've ...

Tonight is officially night of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival and though I plan on celebrating it again this weekend with friends, I already h...

I love it when your book shows up in unexpected places. Below is a recent sighting of Disappearing Desmond at MOMA in NY (thanks Kirsten !)...

Over the weekend, the Twitterverse exploded with the news that an associate professor called books such as Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak...

This is a photo I took of the cover and title page for my new book. It's carved wood, which is something totally new for me that I thoug...

As I mentioned earlier, in celebration of my new book Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival I'm running a week-...

The Fifth Annual Brooklyn Book Festival was held yesterday, and it was a success. However, the coldish, rainy, Fall-like weather was a far ...