Poem in the Post Gazette and Autumn inspires
Published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Saturday, November 7, 2009Ode To the AppleOh pome of evil, of knowledge, of sinplump and curved as a baby's buttocks.Stolen from Greek mythplanted in Eden,unnamed fruit of the Bible,stuck in Adam's throat.The lumpin my geeky boyfriend's neck, when I was a teenmade me want to touch the curious appendagebobbed up and downrun my finger over it --squeamish.Fleshy pomaceous fruit of ripened ovary,you propagate asexually,you are self incompatible.Who knew? The complications of a simple fruit.Your pale pink flower turns virgin whitejust before it falls,you fall,the fall of the [...]
First review for Sangoel!
Great to Have a Review in School Library Journal! Here's an excerpt:When eight-year-old Sangoel comes to the United States from war-torn Sudan, everyone mispronounces his Dinka name until he has the bright idea to make a rebus of a sun and a soccer goal on his T-shirt. This simple story puts a child-friendly spin on a common immigrant experience as the child's classmates respond with similar puzzle pictures of their own names....The diversity of the boy's schoolmates is evident in Stock's skillfully detailed watercolor and collage illustrations...This picture book by the authors of [...]
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