Posted by Unknown | 4:51 AM

' Ladder to the Moon ' by Maya Soetoro-Ng, illustrated by Yuyi Morales Walker Books, 2011 From the opening line you just know this i...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:31 AM

Greetings, Children of the ’90s! My name is Frank Anthony Polito and I’m the author of the recently-released novel Lost in the ’90s . As ...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:58 PM

I wrote one of my author review posts on Aussie illustrator and author Jeannie Baker in 2010. This is an updated version.  About Jeannie Bak...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:36 PM

As I have argued in previous posts ( here & here ), we learn a great deal from literature. Literature brings great pleasure but it...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:56 AM

I get many questions from concerned parents on this blog worrying about how fast they should push their preschool children as writers (see t...

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