Lori Mortensen’s 100th (+) picture book, ARLO DRAWS AN OCTOPUS (Abrams), released May 4th, with Illustrations by Rob Sayegh Junior: “Well-written and full of fun surprises.” ― Kirkus Reviews THAT calls for a blog-party Q & A! Right? And boy do we have questions! Q 1. What was the inspiration for ARLO DRAWS AN OCTOPUS? Lori… Read more »
Hi Again–Room 313 is back from Bainbridge Island, WA, with a few thoughts about writing, and a few poems that we wrote with Erin Dealey! That’s our teacher, Ms. Strayer (above), with two of Erin Dealey’s books. We read a bunch of them. See our last blog takeover (click here) for the reviews. This blog… Read more »
Today on the blog, we get to ask my friend, #kidlit author & clinical social worker, Lauren Kerstein questions about her new book HOME FOR A WHILE–illustrated by Natalia Moore / Magination Press–which releases today! (Cue confetti!) Check out this **STARRED REVIEW** HOME FOR A WHILE “takes apart the fostering experience as few books have-from… Read more »
Hi Blog Readers–Our teacher Mrs. Pete read us Erin Dealey’s new book, DEAR EARTH…From Your Friends in Room 5 (Harper Collins) and guess what? 5th Graders still like picture books! Here are a few things we like about DEAR EARTH…From Your Friends in Room 5: The pictures by Luisa Uribe and how much color there…
Filed under: Authors and Books, Blog Takeover!, DEAR EARTH, Erin Dealey, Kid Lit, Middle Grade/ Teens/ YA, Poetry, Teaching writing, Writing and Publishing Q & A.
We’re back! Remember us?–Your friends in Room FIVE-04 from Lincoln Elementary in the Central Valley of CA? We’re the ones who took over Erin Dealey’s blog on the Book Birthday of DEAR EARTH…From Your Friends in Room 5! (See part 1of our Blog Takeover here.) Today we’re back to share some more posters we made… Read more »
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