
Story. Tradition. Love. The family of our heart as well as of our blood and bone.These are what motivated my to write my picture book, What Will You Be, Sara Mee...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/fashion/weddings/13NAILOR.html?_r=1&emc=eta1THE STORYMy daughter, Kaaryn Nailor, was married Sunday December 13, 2009 at Bridgewaters in lower Manhattan...

In less than twenty-four hours I am headed to Deutschland to share in my son's experiences with the people of Germany. Christmas markets will be all aglow with booths filled with the Christmas season...

Chris Barton's first book for children wowed 'em in Wooster. Ohio, that is.Chris recently traveled to the great state of Ohio, the home of the Day-Glo Corporation--which was founded by Bob and Joe Switzer, the subjects of his book--to visit the Buckeye Book Fair...

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...
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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...
























