Coming Attractions
I love it when children’s books do well in the world. I was excited to join Katherine Paterson at the film premier of Bridge to Terabithia, a couple of years ago, and can’t wait for The Great Gilly Hopkins to hit the big screen. I’m all a‑tingle just thinking about the wide release of Lois […]
Everything Old is New Again
In preparation for a lecture I was giving on the use of poetic elements to enhance prose, I dug through a few old newspaper and magazine articles I’d written for sample passages in which I had done precisely that. In the midst of my search, I came across a piece of reportage from 1977 that […]
Censorship
Banning books, ripping them from classroom shelves, de-facto censorship at the point of publication—what the bleep is going on, here? Okay. I’ll try to calm down, but the effort required is tremendous. Deep breaths. Let me begin, again. When I was a little girl, I was an avid reader. The library was my sanctuary, and story […]