As a mom and a literacy consultant, there are few things sweeter than stumbling across a new author. Amy Krause Rosenthal is one of those authors I would love to meet. I just think I would like her as both a person and as a writer. She clearly writes for the child and the adult […]
Read moreEveryday a summary of ‘reading in the news’ is delivered to my in-box courtesy of the fantastic organization, Reading Rockets. Today my eyes jumped to an editorial that appeared in the Grand Forks Herald titled, “A Love of Reading Means Everything to Children.” I knew this writer would be singing my song. While many of […]
Read moreToday, I listened as a harried mother described the craziness of her last week. At one point, she described a task that I know was initially intended to be fun, as one more thing to check off her list. Tonight, as I sat reading Poppleton In Spring with my girls, one of many tales of […]
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