Here's a fun poem about imagining by my blog partner, Linda Eve Diamond, inspired by the IMAG_NE sculpture of artist Emma Anna, along with a mini-sculpture made from our scrabble set to look like the original!
Read moreLet's Make Butterflies! By Little Bear
Do you know about the mysterious book sculptor who donates her art with little notes "In support of Libraries, Books, Words and Ideas" (and other things, from "writers" to "all things magic"? She's been anonymously creating these works of art for four years and is now getting ready for one final creation... and she's inviting us to play along by making butterflies and sending them in!
Read morePicture Books Inspire Creativity! - By Martha Rodriguez
I read A Reel Cool Summer to six classes of smart, sweet, curious, silly, beautiful girls in three days. They listened carefully to the story, making mental notes of each detail. They laughed out loud as the characters in the book did, and said, harebrained, ridiculous, funny things.
Read moreARE PICTURE BOOKS IMPORTANT? - By Shirley Parenteau
I had barely begun reading my picture book Bears on Chairs in a first grade classroom when a boy in front broke in. “It doesn’t make sense,” he said. “The picture shows four chairs on the first page, but there’s only one chair on the second page. Where are the rest of them? It doesn’t make sense!” ...
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