Image from the GeekDad blog at Wired.com . This is not Kyle. My latest newspaper column applies to half the population. Well honestly, I...

Silly Lilly is back with her second Toon Book , Silly Lilly in What Will I Be Today? . This time Lilly takes readers through the days of the...

Geoffrey Hayes, 2010 Geisel Award winner for Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! , is back with a new Toon Book featuring Patrick, a new chara...

My new column appeared in the newspaper this past Monday, but for some reason it failed to appear on the newspaper's website.  So here i...

Turtle in Paradise , a 2011 Newbery Honor book by Jennifer Holm , takes readers to Key West, Florida in 1935.  Main character Turtle had liv...

Thank you to everyone who came to my sessions in Little Rock! You were an encouraging bunch and engaged in the all the sessions. It was a gr...

New column in the local newspaper today. I was facing a looming deadline when struck with the idea of asking the kids for their help. Um, ...

I’ve confessed this before, but I’ll say it again. I didn’t want to read One Crazy Summer . Maybe it was the mother who abandons her childre...

I know that the Caldecott awards are given for illustrations in picture books, but I was quickly caught up in Laban Carrick Hill’s story of...

Grace Lin follows up her 2010 Newbery Honor for Where the Mountains Meet the Moon with a 2011 Geisel Honor for Ling & Ting: Not Exactl...

mowillemsdoodles.blogspot.com My latest newspaper column is out today, and it's all about the people who go out in public without chi...

Elephant and Piggie have shared the spotlight in twelve books prior to the release of We Are in a Book! (and more to come). Twelve stories f...

At the beginning of Heart of a Samurai , in 1841, Manjiro is a fourteen-year-old fisherman.  Over the next twelve years of his life he endur...