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Apr.23.2013
My passion is to write for children. I get so much enjoyment from it, sometimes laughing aloud while alone and writing! I enjoy writing this blog too, for it allows me to communicate adult concepts and pushes my writing practice. But essentially, I’m happiest writing for children of between five...
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Feb.10.2013
Some time ago
Someone told me I was too naive
I gave people too much credit sometimes
they couldn't understand
how and why I saw beauty and kindness around me and they couldn't
For a while it made me question why I chose to live my life in a particular way
and I could never quite come up with an...
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Aug.23.2011
Boys and Reading: Is There Any Hope?
By ROBERT LIPSYTE
At an American Library Association conference in 2007, HarperCollins dressed five of its male young adult authors in blue baseball jerseys with our names on the back and sent us up to bat in a panel entitled “In the Clubhouse.” We were meant...
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Jun.19.2011
I was thrilled to see a new film on one of my heroes (and I am a woman of few heroes, it must be admitted), the great writer and thinker Paul Goodman, who died in 1972. Watching Jonathan Lee's Paul Goodman Changed My Life was like spending an hour and half in the company of an open flame, radiating...
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Jun.14.2011
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” -Harper Lee
10 Favorite Books to Hook Boys on Reading
It’s the end of school, which can only mean one thing: SUMMER! And, I know for me as a mom, the onset of summer means FUN. But, I have three sons, ages...
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Apr.19.2011
I saw a photo of some celebrity’s four-year old son wearing nail polish. His mom had dressed him in some trendy outfit, and of course matched the nail polish color to what he was wearing. Okay, so this woman clearly has too much time on her hands and a remarkable son that will sit still to get his...
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Nov.05.2010
My second novel Just Being Friendly will be published within the next couple of weeks. I am so excited.....
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Sep.22.2010
A recent NYT article "When Boys Are Prized, Girls Live the Part" written by Jenny Nordberg, described the Afghani tradition of ‘bacha posh' which translates as ‘dressed up as a boy.' Since boys are so valued over girls, families with girls often dress one of their girls in boy's clothes...
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Sep.13.2010
"What do you mean by being here?" asked the shape in a sort of cross voice and nudged Barnaby in the ribs again with his lance.
Now if there was one thing Barnaby did not like, it was to be poked. He didn't like verbal pokes and he didn't like physical pokes. He stood up then and looked up...
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Apr.22.2010
Men Creating Men
In Robert Silverberg's World's Fair 1992,the young hero, Bill, is projected into an adult world, in which he must prove himself to be equal to the men around him. He has won a competition by writing an essay about life on other planets, and the prize is a trip to and a job at, the...
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