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  Today, I get to celebrate my friend Katia Raina's new YA book  Castle of Concrete!   There's more about the book belo...

Tamara Ellis Smith asked me to participate in the Writing Process Blog Tour . Here's Tamara's  post  on Kiss the Earth , a blog s...

Jake is convinced that if you listen hard to a daisy you will hear its secret hum. That's because he's spent the last few month...

The paperback for Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace is out in the world!   Jake cannot control his excitement. Here he is celebrating in t...

  As an author, I'm beginning to notice things about book design that I never saw as a reader.  Check out the paperback version of ...

Here's a video of the toy farm that my mom (who is 87) set up at her place in New Hampshire.  The trains belonged to my mom's da...

I was a panel moderator at the Brooklyn Book Festival. It was called "A Great Big Beautiful World" and was filled with star-st...