Complete Storystorm-Check!

Storystorm

 

Picture book idea month has morphed in to Storystorm. I can't wait to see what the new year and the month of January bring. Thanks Tara Lazar!

A Leap of Faith

Back when skis were wooden and poles were bamboo!

Eww- Why Kids Love Nature!!

 A small spice bush caterpillar. As it grows, it turns wonderful greens and yellows. It will eventually become a beautiful black spice bush swallowtail butterfly.

One of the children flipped a leaf to see why it looked to lacy. There was a host of oak sawfly larvae.

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas

Doing market research is so much fun at this time of year...so many Christmas books and so little time. A mom at the library had a great idea. She was planning to wrap each picture book separately. Her children will open one each day and they'll read them together as a count down to Christmas.

There's a Story Here

My grandmother "tatting" on her front porch...what is she working so hard on? And where is it now?

Writer's Block

Some times it just takes looking at things from another viewpoint.