Friday afternoon, daughter Liz and I went to see New Moon. Sitting next to each other in the dark, we heckled, rolled our eyes, and laughed ...
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Friday afternoon, daughter Liz and I went to see New Moon. Sitting next to each other in the dark, we heckled, rolled our eyes, and laughed ...
As I work on a critical essay about Richard Peck's A Season of Gifts, I will share interesting bits... Like the one I came across just n...
On this day, November 27, 2009, most people are out shopping. It is the day after Thanksgiving, known as "Black Friday." But did y...
Today's post is submitted to American Indians in Children's Literature by Shelley A. Welch, MA, LMHC, of The Capturing Spirit Projec...
Sending you to "displaced Dene," a blog run by Tenille Campbell. She's got some things to say about the House of Night series....
Sending my congratulations to Nicola I. Campbell, author of Shin-chi's Canoe . In the news today... "Residential school story wins...
In this morning's "Google Alert" email (the one I set up using "Debbie Reese" +blog), I learned that Carol Rasco, th...
I've spent the last week engaging in an online conversation on a site called Through the Tollbooth. There, like on American Indians in C...
For some time now, I've been aware of the HOUSE OF NIGHT series of vampire stories. I picked one up in a bookstore and skimmed it, but p...
On Louise Erdrich's blog is a video of Erdrich, staff of her store, and people in the neighborhood, doing Jackson's zombie dance. Fu...
Peter D. Sieruta's blog is called Collecting Children's Books. I read it from time to time. Today, I read "The Mural in the Gym...
Yesterday afternoon I was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Janice Rice. We were there at the invitation of Ryan Comfort of the Am...
After spending the last 24 hours re-reading and making notes on Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet , I feel a bit like the cha...
Back when Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet (nearly everytime I type the words "Peter Pan" I have to fix a typo......
While doing research on Syd Hoff's Danny and the Dinosaur , I came across information about a revision to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lit...