Author of over 400 Books for Children and Adults
This board book began years ago as a poem in a collection called DRAGON NIGHT & OTHER LULLABIES. From there it became a song with music by Lui Collins, a wonderful folk singing friend of mine with who I’d written many songs both for children and adults.
This 6 book series, coming out two books a year for three years, began as a single book as part of a collection of board book manuscripts I had written under the collective title WATER BABIES. That collection of board books has yet to find a publishing home, but Jeff Salane, one of my editors
A lyrical book about a little boy, his obsession with the moon, and how he becomes an astronaut who gets to walk on the moon. And though the book is dedicated to Neil Armstrong, it’s not about him. It’s about desire, dedication, and hard work. In fact, the very things that created the book itself.
A Teacher’s guide to the holocaust using parallel reading of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor and The Devil’s Arithmetic.
A lesson plan.
See how a master teacher uses Encounter within a larger teaching session with 4th graders: barrowmediacenter.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/explorers-and-native-americans-perspective-transliteracy-with-4th-grade/
A whole bunch of resources for all grade levels
A whole bunch of resources for all grade levels
Free online workshop — part of Scholastic‘s Writing with Writers series
Lesson Plan from Scholastic — Grades 3 – 5