I have been having a lot of thoughts, a lot of feelings, a lot of everything lately! I’ve got about 5 blog posts in different stages of completion, but I love the ones that just pop out with barely any effort. This is one of those. I had this idea. …
you can order it now through lee and low! yay!!! and you can learn about it being GENDER FREE! from my letter to my readers too! i’m so excited! i want to hug all the trees in my world. they are such amazing teachers! want more info? check out the …
You may or may not notice something different about my new book, Call Me Tree. Nowhere in the story are boy/girl or pronouns used. No ‘he’ or ‘she’ anywhere! I found it easy to write this way because that’s how I think of kids, as kids, not boy kids or …
This week we celebrate Banned Books Week. Banned books are insights into a culture’s deepest fears. They speak to what we’re trying not to face, what we’re in total denial of or what we feel we must suppress to maintain and protect the current order. Clearly these books hold power. …
