It's our final week of school and I cannot stop thinking about books. I'll be in a new library next year with new students and a...

Jacob Grant joins me today to share the book trailer for BEAR OUT THERE, the sequel to his 2018 picture book BEAR'S SCARE. Here's a...

Oh my word there are SO MANY excellent books coming out! What an excellent time to be a reader. Today I'm excited to welcome Marcie...

Oh my word! What a start to the year! Here's what stuck out to me from the JANUARY 2019 picture book releases that crossed my desk. I...

Challenging the ordinary through storytelling is a surefire way to hook readers. Take a familiar tale and tell it from a new perspective....

Understanding our feelings and the feelings of other builds empathy and sensitivity, helping to make us a more supportive, more...

I've been invited to lead a webinar on building social media skills for writers and illustrators. The webinar, hosted by the...

Oh my word! What a start to the year! Here's what stuck out to me from the JANUARY 2019 picture book releases that crossed my desk. I...

Celebrating friends is kinda the best. Katrina Moore and I opened an elementary school 6 years ago. I still remember going out to lunch...

The 2019 Youth Media Awards were announced on Monday, January 28 at the American Library Association Midwinter conference in Seattle....

When we learn about others' lives their experiences can help shape our own perspectives on the world. When we read about different...

Happy New Year! I'm so excited to continue to share favorites from small and independent presses as we start into the new year. This week...

Happy new year! This Picture Book Recap series was something new I tried in 2018 as a means of staying on top of my TBR pile as well as...

Sometimes you start a conversation with a stranger and you have no idea where it might take you. June Smalls is an author I met on...

Keith Negley and I first connected on the podcast a full two years ago (back when it was still called the Let's Get Busy podcast!) when...