Just got back from talking to K-3 teachers in Calgary. A warm, smart, hospitable bunch of people they were, and it was an excellent conference.
Officially it was a conference for the Early Childhood Education Council, which everyone there shortened to ECEC. It took me the whole four days to get it right—I kept saying [...]

These colors in November… like spices, or old sweaters. I like them a lot. I actually like November a lot, too, if it’s not blowing at me or soaking me. Maybe I should take a camera out and soak up some of these soft calm colors. Or write a poem. I think a non-rhyming one. [...]

There is a great deal of interesting and really gripping children’s and Young Adult fiction about wartime. I picked this one up at Titles Bookstore’s Remembrance Day display.
The cover immediately made it known this was from another time (I personally remember those bathing caps), about a girl in her teens, how she’s looking out [...]

John, who drew this maniacally cheerful pizza face, was only in kindergarten at the time. There’s just something about pizzas + art that brings out the best in us! Almost every poem in Nothing Beats A Pizza lends itself to writing and drawing.
See the black-and-white outline on the right? You can [...]

to my friend author and illustrator Marthe Jocelyn who just won