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Dav Pilkey, A Real-Life Superhero
This is a full-circle story, twenty years in the making. Back in 1997, I was teaching sixth grade in the Tremont section of the Bronx. My new boyfriend (now husband) at the time worked as an associate editor at Scholastic. He gave me a bunch of copies of the first...
My Author Website — Skytemple Runs the Show!
We’re a small studio focused on strategy and design. We’re pretty obsessed with the psychology of experience… almost as much as we love cat pictures on the Internet.
My Husband, a Picture Book, and the Future President
On Thursday, July 28, my husband, Kevin and I were having an ordinary old-married-couple evening, the kind of evening you might have after being together for nineteen years. We brought in sushi, listened to some throwback Simon & Garfunkel, and coordinated our...
Rookie of the Year, A #BookJourney Adventure, Part I
Last November, I traveled to Minneapolis for the NCTE annual conference in Minneapolis. It was one of the best conferences I ever attended. My Personal Learning Network (PLN) came to life. I got to in-person meet so many of the friends and colleagues I’d been...
The Teacher and the Rock Star
For those of you that know me, you know Wonder by RJ Palacio is one of my favorite middle grade novels. It’s a book every elementary school kid should read or should have read before middle school. One of my favorite lines from Wonder comes from Auggie: "I think there...