The Purging of Pity and Fear
Halloween is almost upon us, and my newest picture book, Halloween Forest, is on the shelf. When I received my first copy with John Shelley’s marvelously creepy illustrations of the forest of bones I’d...
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Last week I talked about my new picture book, Halloween Forest, and about the function that fear has in a story, even for very young children. Fear tucked inside the safety of a story can allow us an...
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I’ve found a new way to write. It’s something I’ve been doing from time to time for several years now. I gallop along in a free-swinging prose dropping in rhymes here and here and over there, too,...
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In the fall of 2012, my picture book The Halloween Forest, published by Holiday House and wondrously illustrated by John Shelley, came out to nice reviews. Even a star from Kirkus Reviews. By the time...
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In mid-March here in Minnesota we received an unexpected gift, a few days of temperatures in the 60’s and even as high as 70. One evening my partner and I even had dinner out on our deck beneath the...
View ArticleI Am Not a Poet
I am not a poet, but I do love to write verse. I don’t make that distinction out of false humility but out of reverence for poetry and for those who create it. True poetry requires a freshness of...
View ArticleThe Purging of Pity and Fear
Halloween is almost upon us, and my newest picture book, Halloween Forest, is on the shelf. When I received my first copy with John Shelley’s marvelously creepy illustrations of the forest of bones I’d...
View ArticleWhen Is Scary Too Delicious?
Last week I talked about my new picture book, Halloween Forest, and about the function that fear has in a story, even for very young children. Fear tucked inside the safety of a story can allow us an...
View ArticleA formless form
I’ve found a new way to write. It’s something I’ve been doing from time to time for several years now. I gallop along in a free-swinging prose dropping in rhymes here and here and over there, too,...
View ArticleThe Story of a Story
In the fall of 2012, my picture book The Halloween Forest, published by Holiday House and wondrously illustrated by John Shelley, came out to nice reviews. Even a star from Kirkus Reviews. By the time...
View ArticleNo Impoverishment and No Worthless Place
In mid-March here in Minnesota we received an unexpected gift, a few days of temperatures in the 60’s and even as high as 70. One evening my partner and I even had dinner out on our deck beneath the...
View ArticleI Am Not a Poet
I am not a poet, but I do love to write verse. I don’t make that distinction out of false humility but out of reverence for poetry and for those who create it. True poetry requires a freshness of...
View ArticleThe Purging of Pity and Fear
Halloween is almost upon us, and my newest picture book, Halloween Forest, is on the shelf. When I received my first copy with John Shelley’s marvelously creepy illustrations of the forest of bones I’d...
View ArticleWhen Is Scary Too Delicious?
Last week I talked about my new picture book, Halloween Forest, and about the function that fear has in a story, even for very young children. Fear tucked inside the safety of a story can allow us an...
View ArticleA formless form
I’ve found a new way to write. It’s something I’ve been doing from time to time for several years now. I gallop along in a free-swinging prose dropping in rhymes here and here and over there, too,...
View ArticleThe Story of a Story
In the fall of 2012, my picture book The Halloween Forest, published by Holiday House and wondrously illustrated by John Shelley, came out to nice reviews. Even a star from Kirkus Reviews. By the time...
View ArticleNo Impoverishment and No Worthless Place
In mid-March here in Minnesota we received an unexpected gift, a few days of temperatures in the 60’s and even as high as 70. One evening my partner and I even had dinner out on our deck beneath the...
View ArticleI Am Not a Poet
I am not a poet, but I do love to write verse. I don’t make that distinction out of false humility but out of reverence for poetry and for those who create it. True poetry requires a freshness of...
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