
RIF wishes you a wonderful Thanskgiving celebration. Please note the RIF office will be closed from 3 p.m., November 25 until Monday morning, November 30. I look forward to sharing more with you via Rasco from RIF on the 30th...

As we prepare to celebrate a time of thanksgiving, many thoughts turn to the cold winter which some parts of our country are already experiencing, other areas will begin to be colder day by day. A beautiful cover on this book which this time I can say holds within a beautiful story as well...

I spent Friday getting ready to fly to Arkansas where I will be for the next week visiting with family and celebrating Thanksgiving. And of course I will be spending a considerable amount of my time here with William (you know, my first grandchild born in April!)...

Last year as I flew from D.C. to be with family for Thanksgiving I sat by a gentleman who struck up a conversation as we landed; he asked if I was going to have a big Thanksgiving. I noted it is always “big” for me to be with family whether the gathering is large in numbers or not. He...

The National Book Foundation has just announced the 2009 Young People’s Literature winner: Claudette Colvin, Twice Towards Justice by Phillip Hoose. ...



































