Vegetable Cookery For Kids
I picked up a copy of a magazine called Chop Chop “The fun cooking magazine for families” at a local New Balance shoe store. I have to say the magazine looks great. High quality content. It would be a...
View ArticleDig, Wait, Listen: A Desert Toad’s Tale Resource
Just found this great account of folks looking for various species of toads in the Sonoran Desert.
View ArticleGordon School Shines: Shadow Puppet Plays
I just returned from four days as the Karla Harry Visiting Author at the Gordon School, in Providence, RI. The time at Gordon was one of the highlights of my career.Here are some of the shadow plays...
View ArticleRah Rah Radishes on Best Lists
Happy news! Rah, Rah, Radishes: A Vegetable Chant is on some yummy best-o-year lists including the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles For Reading and Sharing 2011 and Kirkus’ 100 Best of the Year...
View ArticleDecember Animal
This is one of my favorite animals. Here in northern Indiana, and in much of the U.S., they call in Spring and made terrific spiral flights. To see it calling, check out the site of great wildlife...
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April’s Favorite Apple Salad
In anticipation of Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant being released, I’m sharing my version of Waldorf salad. We don’t keep mayo around the house. So I just cut up the apples, add celery, pecans, and...
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Fruit Art Fun With Go, Go, Grapes: A Fruit Chant
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Cranberries Sour Over Go, Go, Grapes
Alas, so sorry, cranberries! We could not fit you into Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant which is coming out May 22. Go ahead and be sour. We love your sourness. Tart is art, we say! Here are a few...
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More Fruit Not In Go, Go, Grapes: A Fruit Chant
A few more fruit that did not fit in Go, Go, Grapes: gooseberries and black raspberries. It included red raspberries. But here are black raspberries. They grow wild here but are also raised...
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More Fruit For Fun
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Go, Go, Grapes: A Fruit Chant
Okay, so I’m more than a little bit excited about Go, Go, Grapes: A Fruit Chant (Release date May 22, 2012 by Beach Lane Books/S&S). Kirkus subscribers can see the Kirkus review of the book...
View ArticleApril is poetry month
I’ll be doing two guest blogs for poetry month. Here’s the first, on Jama Rattigan’s Poetry Potluck. She’s featuring lots of poets, their poems, and recipes, all month long....
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Fruit and Go Seek
Fruit-and-Go-Seek! Here’s a list of fruits and fruit parts in the last spread of Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant (Release date: May 22, 2012) Find them in the book if you can! (more…)
View ArticleWhat’s Hiding in Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant
Try hunting for these vegetables, words, and objects that appear in the photos with fruit. A red checkered tablecloth A molcajete, a large stone version of a mortar and pestle. I bought this one at El...
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Learning Fruits and French
Last summer we visited the Jean-Talon Market in Montréal. Don’t go too early, as we did, because most of the farmers arrive a bit later than our farmers here in the Midwest. But wow, the displays are...
View ArticleGo, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant
Rah, rah, raspberries! Go, go, grapes! Prepare yourselves. Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant will be released May 22, 2012. I’m proud of the luscious photos, which were taken primarily at our local...
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The Huckleberry Confusion
The Huckleberry Confusion—is it a novel? No. It’s just that huckleberry is a slippery word. It refers to various berries of the Vaccinium genus. (Blueberries are also in the Vaccinium genus.) In the...
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Durian Fruit: The Smelly Prize
Durian, oh prickly one. Here’s a photo of the durian that the kind folks at Saigon Market allowed me to create in the back of their store. When I created this photo, it was in a stanza that involved...
View ArticleVegetable Art, Trout Trees and More!
I had the pleasure of visiting Pioneer Elementary in March. Wow, the art teacher was a burst of creativity, working on such incredible projects with the kids. Many other teachers were doing amazing...
View ArticleNew Bumblebee Publication
Kids and educators intrigued by my book The Bumblebee Queen, there’s finally a truly great publication I can send you to for follow up. This has been on my wish-some-expert-would-write-this dream list...
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