Category: Terabithia
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Bibliophile Problems
If you couldn’t tell from my previous posts, I’m a book girl. There are a lot of books in my house. I’m talking more than dozens, more than hundreds, probably a couple thousand. I’ve never counted them all—that would mean math, and me and numbers don’t always get along. This afternoon, after answering yet another…
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World Book Night
It’s World Book Night and I’m a proud book giver. I got a jump on my giving so the twenty copies of Bridge to Terabithia that I had are already gone, thanks to an afternoon visit to a local elementary school. When I drove around the block, looking for the entrance to the parking lot,…
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Three Confessions
Confession #1: I have a lot of books. Confession #2: I have a lot of bookshelves (but I could always use more.) Confession #3: I keep my most treasured books behind closed doors. I first started hiding my books after my eldest child started to “wear out” his own books. Lift-the-flap books with no flaps…
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All for Love: A Middle Grade Reader Romance
In celebration of attending my first SCBWI conference this weekend, I’d like to share my love of literature with you. I’ve been reading middle grade novels since I was of age—I never grew out of the genre. Even though I thought I was writing a young adult novel, on the sixth draft I discovered it…