1. My poem Spelling "For Worse" is up at Goblin Fruit, in both text and audio formats.

1a. I am keeping right fine company on that TOC. :-)

2. Merrie Haskell wrote a novel called Castle behind Thorns. It's about to emerge, it has earned a starred review in Publisher's Weekly, and it will be a Junior Literary Guild selection. (Her second ( Read more... )

I've recently sketched out a couple of poems related to "The Princess and the Pea," which got me curious about other versions out there -- so I borrowed some picture-book retellings from the library ( Read more... )