My blogging life is full of wants: I want to be a more confident, stronger writer. I want to sit down at the computer and have the words flow effortlessly. I want to be more creative. So I was all over the sign up for Julia Cameron’s The Artist Way. The toolkit has been described as My Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron has motivated…
I Don’t Like Gloria by Kaye Umansky, illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain. From School Library Journal PreSchool-Grade 1–Here’s another look at the age-old predicament of feeling supplanted by an unwelcome newcomer to the household. Calvin, a small dog, is perfectly happy being the only animal in the house until, out of the blue (Nobody asked me), a cat named Gloria moves in. Feeling ignored…
April is poetry month and today I share a favorite poem instead of a picture book. From Jack Prelutsky’s Something Big Has Been Here: Twaddletalk Tuck. I’m Twaddletalk Tuck and I talk and I talk and I talk when I run and I talk when I walk and I talk when I hop and I talk when I creep…
Or: It’s Dr. Seuss’s Birthday. Big Deal. I am probably committing six forms of literary blasphemy but I’ll say it anyway: Dr. Seuss is highly overrated. His books are way too long for read alouds, not as whimsical as they assume they are and quite frankly, and my own Rachee thing, they always scare the crap out of me. Shudder! If I had…
Black History Month kinda came without me making a to do about it. Naively I thought that there was need for me to celebrate Black History Month; through out the year I make an attempt to celebrate. Lately I have been thinking that this more of a celebration of my history and not exclusion to anyone. A friend from Twitter and…