Did you know that learning about shapes helps with learning letters and numbers? It does! Being able to recognize shapes helps with...

Every month I share a booklist to go along with the theme of the program I'm doing at my library that month. This month we're exploring...

The past couple of days, I had the opportunity to work at my library's maker booth at Denver's FanExpo. I've done it several times...

More books for babies! We might be getting a little more complicated here, but not much. But books will start having more of a story arc rather than a series of connected images. Some of my favorites* for this age: *[Check back - I'll put my newest additions at the top!)] ROSA LOVES DINOSAURS by Jessica Spanyol (and all the Rosa and Clive books) Join Rosa, a child with curly hair and glasses, as she plays with her dinosaurs. All of the Rosa and Clive stories are about a child

So, first, I admit, "babies" is a broad category. There is a difference between what a newborn might respond to versus a 9 month old...

*[cross-posted on In The Writer’s Web] I realized recently that two of my manuscripts have unreliable narrators. One is a “voice...

What do toddlers like in picture books? What kinds of books will keep them most engaged? Young toddlers are still developing their eyesight, so super-complicated images with lots of detail might be harder to decipher. They need more information spelled out in the text, and a simpler plot with fewer sentences - one or two per page - as their attention spans are short. VERY short. Toddlers, in general*, love: books with repeated refrains, simple concepts (counting, colors, numb

An introduction to Mary and how she became a writer.