Speak Your Mind and Pass the Pizza
Author Anne Fishel, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Harvard Medical School, says that dinner conversation with your kids makes them better readers, and may even be more effective than reading
Parenting points to ponder
Let’s Give History a Heartbeat
Well, here I am at Neil Armstrong Elementary School sharing about slavery and the Underground Railroad. When I first started writing Dark Enough to See the Stars, I didn't realize how my
Reluctant Reader? Give Him Adventure
My novel for kids, Dark Enough to See the Stars, motivates the reluctant reader with adventure. A twelve-year-old slave boy runs away from his master’s plantation and meets friends and danger
Read Kiddo Read
I just started taking a writing course by one of the most prolific fiction authors today, James Patterson. This man’s success writing fiction makes every wannabe bestselling author drool. Is
Is Banning Books on the Rise?
The Children’s Book Council website recently published a Harris Poll survey that suggests that parents’ attitudes about banning certain books from school libraries are changing.http://www.cbcbooks.org/poll-shows-growing-support-for-book-banning-and-rating-system/ – .VcePmBbmxlI
In 2011, 18% of