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November Posterior
This creature’s rump pattern is a signal. When alarmed, the long white hairs stand up. The rest of the herd can see this flash of white from a long way away. So they all know to flee. It is the...
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Global Education Conference
Author Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and I are speaking Tuesday, November 16th at 4 pm Eastern Time at the Global Education Conference. It’s all free and online on the Elluminate platform. You click on the...
View ArticleHooray for Hoppers!
While cleaning out my files, I found a magazine clipping about grasshoppers,, “Hooray for Hoppers,” by Diane Swanson, Ranger Rick magazine. I love Ranger Rick. It’s such an inspiring resource, a...
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Celery Root, Sorry!
Celery root, also called celeriac, is one of the vegetables I did not include in my upcoming (June, 2011) book, Rah, Rah, Radishes: A Vegetable Chant. It wasn’t an intentional oversight. It just didn’t...
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Signing of Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
I’m watching the live streaming at whitehouse.gov of the signing of this important bill. Hurray for all those working to reform school lunches and make them healthier. I’m so glad that Michelle Obama...
View ArticleKids Doing Bumblebee Study
Check it out! Kids did a bumblebee study that was published in a major science journal, Science. Article about their article here. Yes, I’m still following bumblebee news, to share it with those of you...
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December Bird 2011
There’s a blue one, a green one, and this one. The two parts of its common name rhyme. I photographed this bird in Yellowstone. It stashes pine nuts. Sometimes finds food from careless campers. It is...
View ArticleArticle in Indiana Libraries
On page 21 of Indiana Libraries, Vol 29, Number 2, 2010, librarian Catherine Trinkle did a great job of covering my interests, books, and career in her article, “What a Wonderful World: Indiana Author...
View ArticleIf You’re Hoppy
Are you feeling hoppy? Hop hop hop. Like a rabbit? Or a kangaroo? Or a frog? If the answer is YES, this book will make you HAPPY. IF the answer is NO, this book will make you HOPPY and Happy! Feb 22,...
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In Praise of Parsnips
In Praise of Parsnips How I got along for decades without knowing parsnips…well, it just boggles the mind. I asked my mom, and she hardly knew parsnips, either, though she’s from New England and we...
View ArticleVulture Festival March 5th in Wenonah, NJ
www.eastcoastvulturefestival.org Vulture View Fans, this just in, from Scott Barnes at the Wenonah Environmental Commission: “…the 6th edition of the East Coast Vulture Festival will be held as usual...
View ArticleSea Turtle Science News and Helpers
Scientists may have unlocked how sea turtles navigate! Check out this BBC news piece. 8th graders were featured on CNN for selling sea turtle art to help these endangered animals. Yes, I’m still...
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January Animal
To celebrate If You’re Hoppy, the next few months are hoppy animals., like this insect! These insects drink juices from plants. See all the brown spots on the leaf, probably from the insect feeding. I...
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February Animal
We photographed this poison dart frog in Peru. It’s tiny, not much larger than a dime. For more hoppy animals, see my article on the Under the Greenwillow blog.
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March Animal
Birds hop, too. Here are some Sandhill Cranes doing their hopping dance during their migration rest stop. This happens here in Indiana at Jasper-Pulaski.
View ArticleRah, Rah, Radishes: A Vegetable Chant
Oh boy, bok choy! Rah, Rah, Radishes: a Vegetable Chant is out in stores. (Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant will follow in May 2012.) My thanks to all of you who encouraged me to keep pursuing a home for...
View ArticleAn un-hoppy bunny?
With the launch of If You’re Hoppy, I’ve been keeping my eye on bunny news. Check this out…the world’s largest rabbit was 26.4 pounds. It lived 3-5 million years ago and did NOT hop!
View ArticleContinent Studies: Picture Books for K, 1, 2
Great picture books to tie in with studies of continents Australian Picture Books Everyone Should Read 10 Children’s Books About South America My young continent series books, with two levels of text...
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Vegetables That Did Not Make the Cut
Here are some of the main vegetables we could not fit in the rhythm, rhyme, space of Rah, Rah, Radishes: A Vegetable Chant. 1st row: artichoke, avocado, banana squash, and, on the right side of the 4th...
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