NANCY WOOD - JUNE 20,1936 - MARCH 12, 2013 Although she lived, loved and died in New Mexico, she was born in Trenton, New Jersey. In a letter to me in 1994, she said: "I grew up in Trenton, mostly, but also spent a fair amount of...
It only happens every three years that both the Lee Bennett Hopkins/Penn State Poetry Award and the Lee Bennett Hopkins/International Reading Association (IRA) Promising New Poet Award are given. This year the Penn State Award goes to Kate Coombs for WATER SINGS BLUE: OCEAN POEMS,...
Charles and I returned from a seven-night cruise aboard OASIS OF THE SEAS -- one of those lifetime events. Photos appear on my fb page. Of course, one comes back to reality to several million emails, mail, et. al. -- all of which will probably take...
We met in 1973 at at ALA convention soon after he won a 1972 Caldecott Honor Book For ANANSI THE SPIDER: A TALE FROM THE ASHANTI (Holt). Already a prominent artist, Gerald was also a filmaker. His film version of ANANSI, was hailed by Wilson Library...
A new year. An exciting newfound major project has begun. Older ideas are being looked over. Frustration continues within the 'industry'. No one seems to know where it is going -- or where it went. Yet, life moves forward, we find new ways. We have...
