Happy Back to School!

 

"Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire."

 

  ~William Butler Yeats



Dear Blog:

Please accept my deepest apologies. My wedding has made me neglect you. I will be back after my honeymoon aug. 5th-13th

St. Lucia honeymooning

Love it when I catch Maggie "reading"  :)

Care For Our World

 

  So excited for my SCBWI friend Karen Robbins whose first picture book, CARE FOR OUR WORLD (illustrated by Alexandra Ball from the U.K. and published by Compendium) recently released at the NY Stationary Show. Compendium also created an adorable CARE FOR OUR WORLD playkit with punch out animals, for hours of imaginative play, which has been named the Playset of the Year and Top Toy of the Year by Creative Child Magazine. Karen's book has also recently won Runner-Up at the Green Book Festival in S.F. in the children's book division.

Karen has been a member of the SCBWI for 26 years, and has published several books and over fifty magazine articles.

Congratulations, Karen!  A beautiful accomplishment indeed, I can't wait to purchase my own copy!

“Where should I go?" -Alice.

"That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”



Farewell Maurice, thank you for your stories, your art, and your vision



"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it." - Maurice Sendak



Happy Children's Book Week!

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."

~Emilie Buchwald