Wim's Latest Blogs
Dec.02.2011 - 6:35 pm
Imagine picking up a novel, hoping for an entertaining read. You open it up, read the first paragraph, and realize that the main character is …
… you!
What would it...
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Dec.01.2011 - 3:54 pm
Reading and writing are magical.
That isn’t just a slogan to encourage your students to read and write—although it can’t hurt! It’s also more true than we may realize or...
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Nov.30.2011 - 2:22 pm
“Ay, ¡Mis hijos, mis hijos! ¿Dónde están mis hijos?” (“Alas, my children, my children! Where are my children?”)
If you’re teaching a class that includes Latino students, it...
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Nov.29.2011 - 7:21 pm
“When dinosaurs ruled the earth …”
Those words (which happen to be the title of a 1970 movie) really get inside a kid’s imagination. I read my first book about dinosaurs...
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Published Reviews
Sep.27.2010
Published by Birdbrained Book BLog
People have compared this book to the Percy Jackson series. That’s like saying Sabrina the Teenage Witch is comparable to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The difference between those...
About Wim
When I moved to Los Angeles in 1986, I met my future wife, Pat Perrin. We soon began writing as a team, exploring such themes such as creativity, science, history, mythology, storytelling, personal and social transformation, and the evolution of human...