Quantcast
Channel: Halloween Forest – Just Thinking
Browsing all 18 articles
Browse latest View live

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...

View Article



When 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 Article

A 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 Article

The 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 Article

No 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 Article


I 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 Article

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...

View Article

When 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 Article


A 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 Article


The 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 Article

No 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 Article

I 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 Article

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...

View Article


When 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 Article

A 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 Article


The 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 Article

No 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 Article


I 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 Article
Browsing all 18 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images