Happy Mother's Day! Today is sunny, I've gone for a run, and the House of Glee showed their Mother's Day appreciation with jam...

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...

Last Tuesday, I attended the local SCBWI monthly meeting to hear the witty, warm poet and social-media maven Gregory Pinkus of GottaBook an...

I had this post in draft form from last October. I still get a kick out of all the patron saints for different challenges and afflictions. ...

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...

From Publishers Weekly , A New Look For Liar , by Karen Springen: Proof of the power of the web: Bloomsbury Children’s Books has told Publi...

I try to keep the focus of this blog consistent, though the scope has expanded since I first started Saints and Spinners 4 1/2 years ago. It...

Colleen of Chasing Ray has an interesting post called What a Girl Wants: Representing All the Girls #3 . In both the main post itself and th...

The gathering at the Downtown Seattle Public Library branch for John Green's Paper Towns book tour was huge! They had to open up the d...

You've got one more day to nominate your favorite children's and young adult books of 2008! The CYBILS await you. After October 15,...

CYBILS time is here! CYBILS stands for "Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards" and anyone from bloggers, l...

I posted a little review blurb for The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas on GoodReads . Not to toot my own horn here, but if you...

Four years ago, I was at a New Year's Day dinner with a lot of people I didn't know all that well. At one point, I mentioned to one ...

After reading Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn , I wrote this little story to dedicate to TadMack . Fear not, Twilight fans, for there a...

TadMack and Alkelda, photographed by DaviMack This afternoon, I was working on my first attempt to make spanakopita , a heavenly concoctio...

Tanita S. Davis, a.k.a. TadMack of Finding Wonderland , has her first book coming out in June 2008. The young adult novel is called A La Car...

Last night, Bede and I went to see Garrison Keillor at the Paramount Theatre. I had bought the tickets as the third part of a mini-subscript...

You may vote for your favorite children's and young adult books of 2006 in the Cybils , a new literary award bestowed by bloggers.

Huzzah for Book-A-Minute ! Now I don't have to read Asimov's Foundation series (or anything by Robert Jordan) to find out what happe...

Booktalk Friday never really took off for me. What's the big deal, you might ask, if it's only one book a week? After all, some peo...