Next week, author Kristin Gray will share her thoughts on Mining for Heart. In the meantime, enjoy her fantastic debut middle grade novel. Title: Vilonia Beebe Takes Charge Written by: Kristin L. Gray Suitable for ages: 8-12 Simon & Schuster, 2017, fiction Themes/topics: pets, responsibility, family Opening: The day I was born I was four … More Vilonia Beebe Takes Charge
There comes a time in all kids’ lives when they need to create their own country. … More I Need My Own Country!
An illustrated journey … from the Big Bang to the present. … More Timeline, A Visual History of Our World
The Liszts make lists. They make lists most usual and lists most unusual. … More The Liszts
Throw logic out the window! Rules don’t apply! Linda Skeers finds the funny in writing for children. … More Mining for Heart: “A Touch of Humor” by Linda Skeers
Do you ever stop and look down? Consider what’s beneath your feet? … More The Street Beneath My Feet
This rollicking and fascinating picture book biography chronicles the life of the first pioneer of children’s books—John Newbery himself. … More Balderdash! John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children’s Books
Nacho likes to eat only one thing—gazpacho! Gazpacho for breakfast, gazpacho for lunch, gazpacho for dinner, for snacks, and for brunch. … More Gazpacho for Nacho
Buying a book is an investment. It’s an investment for the publisher that acquires it, the library that buys it for its collection, and for the reader who buys it at the bookstore. How do you get people to reach for their wallets to pick your book over all the others? You guessed it: heart. … More Mining for Heart: An Editor’s Point of View
Down, down in the depths of the sunless sea, deep, deep in the cold, cold dark, creatures, strange and fearsome lurk. … More Giant Squid
Beth Anderson, Children's Writer 