“For readers new to the subject, the biographies will be a vivid, informative introduction, but even those who have some familiarity with the landmark events will learn much more here. . . . A penetrating look at elemental national history.” –Booklist How were you taught the Civil Rights movement? Teachers, how do you teach it?…
Tag: Boyds Mills Press
Thank you, Nikki Grimes, for sending me your amazing new book: Words with Wings!
Checking the mailbox is always fun for a book reviewer. We never know what gems the publishers are going to send us. So going to the mail is like Christmas every day — lots of great packages to open. But every once in a while an author herself sends a very special gift. That is…
How I Published All of My Books
I have published 10 books for children and adults. Here’s how I did it
Poems Throughout the School Day
Crossposted on Yahoo! Introducing Poetry throughout the School Day For millennia – even before Homer started reciting The Iliad and The Odyssey – we humans have been telling one another poems. Even today, children and adolescents often spontaneously make up poems to tell one another, in jump-rope rhymes, insults and comebacks, riddles, and other verses. What…
