It’s National Poetry Month and we’re pleased to welcome poet Kristine O’Connell George as our Author-In-Residence for the first half of April. In 1998, Kristine won the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Poetry and the International Reading Association/Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award for, THE GREAT FROG RACE and Other Poems. Since this stunning debut,… Read more »
Dianne White
Kristine O’Connell George, Author-In-Residence
Being a big sister – a good big sister – has its ups and downs. Jessica knows all about sisterhood. She’s big sister to Emma (Jess’s sometimes “dilemma”) in Kristine O’Connell George‘s newest book, EMMA DILEMMA: Big Sister Poems, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. Jess knows how Emma can be. Annoying one day, lovable the next…. Read more »
Kristine’s Story
I was born in Colorado and later moved to Texas, Oregon, and Ohio. Six different houses in four different states by the time I started college. Growing up, one of my favorite possessions was my skate key. I’d tighten my skates onto my Ked’s tennis shoes and skate as fast as I could up and… Read more »
Your Friend, Kristine
Dear Reader, Have you ever had a burr stuck to your sock or pant leg? These prickly little things poke you until you just have to stop and pull them out. That’s sort of how Jess (the big sister) sees her little sister, Emma. Most of the time. As a big sister, I had fun… Read more »
Sand to Stone, Quiet Eggs, Kakapo Rescues, and More…
This week in the Book Room, we take a look at a few more of the many and varied forms of informational text for K-5 readers. SAND TO STONE AND BACK AGAIN, by Nancy Bo Flood, photographs by Tony Kuyper is a stunning introduction to a unit on rocks and minerals and to the larger… Read more »
Welcome Special Guest, Phyllis Root!
“If you come to the Big Bog, you might think you have come to the loneliest, quietest place on earth.” But the bog is not as quiet one might imagine. There are surprises bubbling just under its surface. Pitcher plant mosquitoes, “butterflies that flit from bog flower to bog flower.” Tamaracks and black spruce, “the… Read more »
Phyllis’s Story
If you weren’t a writer, what would you like to be? If I weren’t a writer, I might be a farmer, or a naturalist, or a singer (if I could carry a tune). Maybe an explorer, or a dancer (if I didn’t trip over my own feet). So many possibilities! What I love about being… Read more »
