Tap-Tap: Have a Listen. Some Readers are the Best!
This is not the first time one of my books has inspired a song or even a play but this is the most recent.This makes my day! Makes me want to dance. Fills me with joy.I think I will go listen again!Check out the music and short video written and produced by school Terry Hess.https://vimeo.com/161375010 Here is what she has to say about the production:I was truly inspired by your wonderful book. My elementary music classes looked at the illustrations, and then assisted in coming up with the sentences, as the book was [...]
See Where Four Feet Two Sandals is Now!
Lena and Feroza are in Sweden!Sometimes your characters get to go places you have never been!Who knows? There's still time... meanwhile I will revel in the possibilities, new readers and new friends. Around the world, across cultures and language.
Look what I found!
Some of you may be too young to know this but this is how you used to check a book out of the library. Catalog cards. They were still in use when my first books were published. As libraries around the country began to transition to computerized catalogs they discarded the cards.By the time I realized there would never be a library catalog card for my books again, it was too late. I kept looking inside of books from libraries, asking librarians to save them for me if they came across one. Nothing. [...]
April means Earth Day and Geen Earth Book Awards: Circles of Hope
April 22 is Earth Day. What better to celebrate than with the Green Earth Book Awards? Circles of Hope was a winner in 2006. The award given by The Nature Generation is meant to help inspire Environmental Stewardship. Circles of Hope is in the company of a selection of wonderful, inspiring and important books for children. The list includes Picture books, fiction, non-fiction, Chapter books and Young Adult in a list of award winning books since 2005.The short listed books for the 2016 awards on Earth Day have been chosen. See the list here. And [...]
Look what they are Reading in Zambia!
Check out this program!Think about a donation.Hard to resist! --> . ProjectEDUCATE does some amazing work and we need your help to help ensure they continue to do so. No donation is too small and all contributions are tax-deductible. It is a great cause and you will be helping educate children in some of the poorest communities in the world. To learn more and donate please visit https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/operationread/ If you would like to support their environmental initiative, please visit https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/conservation-nation Thank you.
Honored To Have My Poem Included.
As a judge for the Young Muslim Writers Awards I was asked to contribute to this lovely journal.Who knew judging could be so difficult?Six young poets, all ages. Several submitting more than one poem. All meaningful and well crafted. A joy to read.And I read them over many times. Tried to be objective, even made a kind of grid for scoring different elements of the poems. But heart enters into all of it, the writing and the judging. That is the beauty.And here is my contribution to this years journal. An honor to be [...]