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Big Worries in Little Bodies

May 12, 2021 by Ellie Roscher and Caren Stelson

It can be easy to dismiss the worries of a child, but to that child, they may feel consuming. When we do not name and talk about our anxieties, or when we do share them and they are discounted, shame around them can grow.

Big and Blank

March 14, 2021October 12, 2016 by Lynne Jonell

Beginning a new chapter. The page is BIG and BLANK. I know where my characters are but I don't have the faintest idea what is going to happen next.

Dear Peacemakers

May 3, 2018July 19, 2016 by Vicki Palmquist

In recent weeks, we’ve had many requests for books about anger and fear and conflict resolution. I was immediately reminded of an excellent resource published in 2010 called Book by Book: an Annotated Guide to Young People’s Literature with Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution Themes (Carol Spiegel, published by Educators for Social Responsibility, now called Engaging Schools).… more

“I’m not ready for school!”

July 29, 2015June 30, 2015 by Vicki Palmquist

I minored in theatre in college, where I crossed the street from Augsburg to attend Arthur Ballet’s legendary history of theatre class at the University of Minnesota. Lessons learned in that class came rushing back as I savored Mike Wohnoutka’s Dad’s First Day because it struck me how well this book would play as theatre of the absurd.… more

Big and Blank

Dear Peacemakers

“I’m not ready for school!”

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