Recently I joined a book club, thinking it would be good motivation to start reading books for an adult audience again. Sadly, I haven...

So I've been hard at work on the art for Starry River of the Sky . It starts with a sketch: my sketches are actuall...

Much of the past year has been spent at my computer, writing and plotting and organizing myself. In the past few months I've set up m...

Lovely reader Naomi, who celebrated Lunar New Year with Pocket Pacy , recently brought Pocket Pacy to the Where the Mountai...

This Saturday afternoon I will be giving a talk for kids at the Meekins library in Williamsburg, MA about how a children's book is ma...

My impression of writers' conferences and retreats is pretty negative. I think of competitive people sucking up and looking...

Sorry, I haven't been a very good blogger this year. What have I been up to lately? Well, in the middle of April I was...

May Showers... makes my Rain Dragon sleep for hours and hours.  Hazel Maisy, my rain dragon born two weeks ago!...

In case you haven't heard the sad news , Maurice Sendak passed away yesterday at the age of 83. The Juniper Tree will remain one of ...

I'm spending several months on a small Scottish island, something I've wanted to do since I was a teenager. This is the is...

I was determined to post today at Blue Rose Girls early this Friday. Unfortunately, I was involved in an auto accident this mornin...

Fascinating question, Meghan! (and the child who came up with it) When a short biography of Thomas Edison I wrote years ago didn...

Getting emails from kids about my books is really just the best. Last week this photo from a second grader named Arden, who used A Photo...

That's a question I got asked yesterday. Kids always surprise me. I get the standard questions, like why do you always make those big ...

 I must apologize for being AWOL from Blue Rose Girls for so long. Although I may be retired, my new “nanny granny” schedule ...