This week I am away at a writers’ retreat on the beautiful shores of Lake Champlain, organized by my fellow writer-friend, Kate Messner. If you haven’t yet discovered her books, you should. She’s an extremely multitalented writer. There are about twenty other children’s book writers here. We write all day, and then have dinner together. [...]
Nora Baskin
Yesterday was a long but fantastic day–a double school visit day. I spent the school day at Webb Elementary School in Wethersfield, Connecticut, talking to kids from Pre-K all the way through sixth grade. They were excellent listeners, and they had great questions–and they laughed in all the right places! Huge thanks to PTO enrichment [...]