Tag, You’re It! (Part 3)
Today it’s time to learn about the publisher. There’s lots to know, so get yourself a beverage and let’s get started!
Barb Rosenstock
Tag, You’re It! (Part 2)
Last time I wrote about why teachers and other educators often make great children’s writers. Today we are going to make sure you know what you’re writing.
Tag, You’re It! (part one)
I’m going to use this column for a series of articles for educators explaining the basics of publishing your own children’s book but, really, for anyone who wants to hold their own book in their hands.
Art Will Out
This month we have been thinking about the mysteries of the visual arts—how some artists must create, no matter the circumstances.
Books about the Night
Nighttime is a magical time for kids. It’s a time for exploring the night skies. It’s a time for dreaming cozy dreams. It’s a time of mischief when it comes with the thrill of being allowed to stay up late.
Nighttime picture books have always had an allure for me because of the topics they explore and the amazing and varied art by illustrators challenged with the task of drawing the dark.
Making Something Out of Nothing
Jackie: We are in cold, cold winter. Too cold to read seed catalogs – spring just seems too far away to imagine fragile green. We are confined to cabin. What to do but think of repurposing, making something out of nothing, or next to nothing?
Stone Soup by Marcia Brown has always been one of my favorite something-out-of-nothing (or at least something out of stones) stories.… more
The Secret Kingdom
This book is irresistible. For all kinds of reasons.
Remember when you were a kid, or maybe you do this now, how you’d take whatever was at hand and create a house, a camp, an entire setting for you to play in? Where you could act out your stories? Did you do this with found items from nature? Or things your family was throwing away?… more