
For the longest time, I avoided writing about my family.My husband, who knew all about my interesting childhood, couldn't fathom why I'd waste "such a gold mine."He'd shrug, muttering about how "you can't make this stuff up."I had written three novels for young readers, none about my life in...

The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New ColorsChris Barton, illus...

The Cybils are awesome and they like us. They really, really like us.Charlesbridge books that have received a nod:CATEGORY: Easy Readers and Short Chapter BooksGood Dog, AggieCATEGORY: Fiction Picture BooksWhat REALLY Happened to Humpty...

Faces of the Moon is my new children's book, released this July in time for the United Nations' International Year of Astronomy...

Bob Crelin assures me that his blog entry is forthcoming. Meanwhile, as you can see at the left, he's busy sharing Faces of the Moon with young readers who are eager to find out more about a planet's best friend.

Bob Crelin will be posting his blog entry soon.Meanwhile, did you see how Charlesbridge and Bob Dylan have a lot in common in the previous post below? Uncanny. Bob is also of Russian descent, which makes The Magic Babushka even more Dylanesque...

Charlesbridge enters the rock pantheon with The Magic Babushka.As you can see on this Bob Dylan album cover for Dimestore Medicine, Bob's friend (is that Sara?) is wearing her own magic babushka. A side-by-side comparisonThis photo is from 1965. Dylan is a folk music hero...

The blue box on the left-hand side of the Charlesbridge Publishing website, pairing an adult book, The Genius of America, with my children's book, Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation, intrigued me. PARENTS AND KIDS CAN READ TOGETHER...

-- Or, How I Came to Write Up, Up, and Away --"Where do you get your ideas?" is the question I always get from students during school visits.Most authors would agree with me that ideas come to us in the strangest ways, sometimes from nowhere and totally unexpected, and they dangle and entangle us...

It started with a lump in my throat. "I don't know if I can do this," I told my sister.The feeling caught me by surprise...

"Will they like it?"Can there be any more basic question for a first-time author as his debut effort finally reaches the marketplace...

The quickest way to raise a public school teacher's anxiety level is to add something to an overcrowded curriculum. Public Law 108-477 does just that. It requires public schools to provide an educational program on the U.S. Constitution on September 17th, Constitution Day...

Listen to an interview with author Anne Sibley O'Brien on Maine Public Broadcasting.Visit the After Gandhi website.Learn more about After Gandhi, Anne Sibley O'Brien, and Perry Edmond O'Brien.Pass the Peace!














