KidLitCon * is joining up with Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), a nonprofit children's literacy organization. Colleen Mondor of Chasing Ra...

Upstart Crow Literary posted a tribute to Bridget Zinn , who died from cancer yesterday morning. Bridget Zinn was a Teen/YA librarian, blog...

The author and the baker are happy with their new dolls . They were so much fun to make!

I posted a Gluten Free Sweet Potato Spice Muffin recipe over at the Natural Kids blog. The muffins freeze well. Here are some other yummy ...

Jules has posted her interview with Salley Mavor over at S even Impossible Things Before Breakfast . Mavor is the author/illustrator/embroi...

Author Sarah Prineas wrote a guest blog-post I appreciated on Shrinking Violet Promotions. It's called I Will Be Your Friend But I Will ...

Kristy of Textiles4you has a tutorial on how to make a travel felt story board . She's quite crafty and is passionate about upcycling .

Here are a few items that I have gathered into one blog post. If I were clever all the time, I would have made them four separate blog-posts...

Today, Jen of SewnNatural presented a nice writeup of some of my latest activity with the NaturalKids team. The book suggestions I will be...

I wrote a guest blog post on storytelling as part of the "Discovering Waldorf" series in The Magic Onions . You may find it here: ...

This blog post was written for Share a Story, Shape a Future 's Blog Literacy Tour 2010 and is part of day two of the tour by The Book C...

Quiet reflection in the living world is a rare, dearly sought-after state. Quiet on the blogfront comes across at best as benign neglect. I ...

I'm pleased to announce that Wendy of BirchLeaf Designs is the winner of the astronomy magus doll in the Five Year Anniversary and Give...

[Note to those reading this in RSS readers: this is the real blog post.] Five years ago, I started a storytelling blog. My daughter was no...

Sunday, February 21 is my five year anniversary for blogging on Saints and Spinners . I have a little celebration planned that includes a gi...

I'm glad to be able to present for Crafty Thursday a tutorial on the NaturalKids blog about how to make a wood and felt snow child . ...

The "wheels spinning in the mud" metaphor is apt for my current mode of thinking. I know that emerging from a hard place takes a c...

I'm thrilled that author, blogger and friend Tanita S. Davis won the 2010 Coretta Scott King Honor award for Mare's War . You can f...

Rainmom is an assistant professor of religious studies and a mom of two children, of whom the elder has autism. When I went to college with...

Congratulations to Jules Danielson of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast , Peter D. Sieruta of Collecting Children's Books and Be...