The Uncommon Corps

            Sometimes a book hands us perfect teaching opportunities. Frozen in Time   by Mark Kurlansky is one such b...

Structure I often think that the great secret of nonfiction is structure. That is, no book, no series of books, no ten-part documentary w...

Well-written children's books, particularly those for the very young, can often provide the most valuable lessons in writer's craft....

Ever since New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fari ñ a called for more Balanced Literacy in NYC classrooms (see htt...

While Walter Dean Myers will be sorely missed in so many ways, I want to note that Nancy Garden, author of Annie on My Mind (1982) and othe...

Appendix D? Sue Bartle and I have been approached to find expert librarians to help out with a challenging but important task. As you all...

There are so many books about César Chávez that it might seem as if we don’t need any more, but we do.   Now we have Larry Dane Bri...