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Quirky Fun in Little Red Gliding Hood by Tara Lazar ~ Mira Reisberg

My Summer Reading (About Writing) List

And now a word from guest blogger Sanne Dufft about the Bologna Book Fair

The Setting Thesaurus

The Wonderful World of Salina Yoon in Be a Friend!!

There are so many people in the kidlit world who are full of heart and soul and that heart and soul carries over into their writing and or illustration. Salina...

Celebrating Sylvia Liu, Metaphor & Simile, & Picture Books

Not Your Everyday Illustrated Thesaurus

Meet Isabel Campoy and her latest book - Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood

Mondays with Mira - the 4 main types of picture books and 2 delightful books from Little Bee Books

Why Your Child Needs Nursery Rhymes

Kid Lit and Death, the Sustenance of Teaching, Writing About Native Americans

Top 10 Ways To Definitely Make Kids HATE Books and Reading

Special X - 5 Things Editors & Agents Want to See Before Signing You - the Blog Post

The One Thing (you should know as a teacher and a writer.)

Mondays with Mira: The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Everywhere Babies

Mondays with Mira Reviews Marissa Moss's Fun Middle Grade Novel - Blood Diaries: Tales of a 6th Grade Vampire

One Word to guide you through the year

How choosing one word to be a touchstone or guide throughout the year can help.

How Writing by Hand Affects the Brain

A list of articles about how reading and writing by hand affects the brain.

Biographies - Jane Goodall - The Watcher by Jeanette Winters - Mira Reisberg