Featured Books

BEAUTIFUL BALLERINA
Words by Marilyn Nelson, Photographs by Susan Kuklin
FAMILIES
Fifteen special families
ALL ABOARD: A TRUE TRAIN STORY
Featuring the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
DANCE
Co autored with Bill T. Jones.
FROM WALL TO WALL
A new way to hink about walls.
HOOPS WITH SWOOPES
with WNBA MVP and Olympic gold medal basketball star Sheryl Swoopes.
THE HARLEM NUTCRACKER
Donald Byrd's classic modern ballet.
HOW MY FAMILY LIVES IN AMERICA
Three children from different cultures emphasize the everyday ways heritage is transmitted.
FIGHTING FIRES
New York's bravest show you how they fight fires.

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To Post Or Not to Post

February 7, 2010

I'm thinking about posting a chapter that did not appear in No Choirboy. It is about Walter McMillian, a men falsely accused of murder, who spent six years on death row. I did not include his story in the book because he was not a teenager at the time of his ordeal. The murder victim, however, was a teenager. Would you like to read about him? Please let me know.

Age Appropriate

October 29, 2009

My new post on INK.com is up and awaiting your comments. When is a children's book too old or too young? Check it out? http://inkrethink.blogspot.com/

INKThinkTank

October 8, 2009

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How do we know the truth for sure?

August 28, 2009

As you can already see, I'm the world's worse blogger. But I did write one recently for I.N.K. Here's the site:
http://inkrethink.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-do-we-know-truth-for-sure.html

My Bad ...

June 5, 2009

Every time I start write this blog, I get caught up with the photographs on my Website. Perhaps that's because I can't wait for my first digital photography book to be published by Scholastic. But wait I must, at least until October.

The book, Beautiful Ballerina, was written by Marilyn Nelson, photographed by you-know-who, (more…)