I do Music Mondays with the kindergarten and first grade classes at my daughter's school. Today, one of my favorite kids informed me tha...

Music: This was my last week of French camp gigs. My last gig was a regular musical storytime akin to the ones I usually present. I didn...

I had two gigs last weekend. One was great, and one was not. Fortunately, the great one was on Sunday and the experience was the opposite of...

Today reached 101 degrees F around home and 103 degrees F in downtown Seattle. Or was that yesterday? I don't deal with the heat very we...

It's evening as I write this, and I need to prepare for a storytelling gig tomorrow at the Children's Museum. Saturday I have a gig ...

Friday, May 1, was sunny and warm. Sunday, May 3, was fairly pleasant as well. On Saturday, May 2, the day of May Faire and the May Pole dan...

We finally have winners of the Children's Book Sequels contest ! The fabulous Minh Le and I will announce them next week, along with ho...

As promised, here is the account of my promotional storytelling video shoot. Grace Stahre of VersantMedia is producing it. Grace spent a co...

Here's the latest on the Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act: CPSIA: It's February 10th, So Now What? Even though small busi...

Last month at Third Place Books , not a single person showed up for my 10 am storytime. It was uncanny, because there weren't even any c...

[ Photo of stained glass window of St. Blaise , courtesy of Romary by a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.] Two weeks ago, a mild col...

I was scheduled to perform at the Eatonville branch of Pierce County Library System this Saturday, October 11, at 11:30 am. However, Eatonvi...

Musical Storytime with Farida Dowler Follow the link for my Pierce County Library programs this Fall!

Friends, please know that while I have a big backlog of posts and books to read, I am at least reading your most recent posts on my RSS read...

For all of you who asked if Lucia ever came with me to help out with storytimes, the answer is, "Yes, she has come to many a storytime ...

I think it's safe to say that it's official: this October and November, I will be presenting eight musical storytime programs for th...

Every Sunday, Jules and Eisha of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast host 7Imp's 7 Kicks, and invite all readers to do the same. I...

Someone called to book me for a birthday party. That was good! Unfortunately, I already had a previous commitment. That was bad! But then, t...

I've been so busy. My apologies for not keeping up with your blogs. I plan to do a little catch-up over the weekend. The good news is th...

1) Get your 2008 ALA literary award announcements (Newbery, Caldecott, Prinz, King, Batchelder, and more) right here . I'm way behind on...