Do your students or children need a little extra practice with reading over the holidays? Try this great word matching exercise: What you’ll need: A whiteboard (or a large sheet of paper to write on) Sticky notes (colorful are great!) A marker What to do: Write out words the child …
#TuesdayTalk with Marcus Cutler. His illustrations can be see in Lark Holds the Key—on shelves now! What are the challenges of illustrating a book that belongs to a series? It’s sooo important to get the main characters right. Lots of sketches and drafts are involved to get the character design …
Author Melanie Jackson talks about her new novel, Death Drop: In his famous portrait of Persephone, Dante Gabriel Rossetti shows the young woman of myth having just taken a bite out of a pomegranate. Persephone’s gloomy, brooding expression conveys that she knows quite well she should have left the delicious …
#TuesdayTalk with Jocelyn Shipley. Her new novel, Shatterproof, is on shelves now! Tell us a bit about your book. Thirteen-year-old Nate needs a break from looking after his recently disabled mom, so one day when she thinks he’s at a cross-country meet, he goes to the mall with Lug, a …
#TuedayTalk with Natasha Deen. Her novels Across the Floor and Lark Holds the Key are on shelves now! Tell us a bit about your books. My first book, Across the Floor, is about a football player must take a contemporary dance class in order to stay on his team, and …
Sometimes it’s hard to entice young readers, Orca Echoes is a series meant to introduce readers from ages 7-9 to the love of books! Does your child love the environment? Pamela McDowell’s Salamander Rescue explores the further adventures of Cricket and her friends! Catch up with Cricket’s first installment in …
