Poet and writer for children and adults

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Resources

Recommended Resources: a collection of resources for reference and instruction

For Educators

  • Ayres, Ruth. Celebrating Writers: From Possibilities Through Publication. Stenhouse Publishers. 2013.
  • Buckner, Aimee. Nonfiction Notebooks: Strategies for Informational Writing. Stenhouse Publishers. 2013.
  • Buckner, Aimee. Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader’s Notebook. Stenhouse Publishers. 2009.
  • Buckner, Aimee. Notebook Know-how. Stenhouse Publishers. 2004.
  • Culham, Ruth. The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing. Stenhouse Publishers. 2016.
  • Dorfman, Lynne and Rose Capelli. Poetry Mentor Texts: Making Reading and Writing Connections, K-8. Stenhouse Publishing. 2012.
  • Fletcher, Ralph. How Writers Work: Finding A Process That Works for You. Harper Collins. 2000.
  • Fletcher, Ralph. Pyrotechnics on the Page: Playful Craft That Sparks Writing. Stenhouse Publishers. 2010.
  • Fletcher, Ralph. What A Writer Needs. Boynton/Cook. 1993.
  • Fletcher, Ralph and Joann Portalupi. Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8. Stenhouse Publishers. 1998.
  • Gantos, Jack. Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 2017.
  • Heard, Georgia. The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work. Heinemann. 2nd ed., 2002.
  • Janeczko, Paul. How to Write Poetry. Scholastic. 1999.
  • Levine, Gail. Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink. HarperCollins. 2003.
  • Levine, Gail. Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly. HarperCollins. Reissue, 2014.
  • Loewen, Nancy. Words, Wit, and Wonder: Writing Your Own Poem. Picture Window Books. 2009.
  • Overmeyer, Mark. How Can I Support You? Strategies for Effective Writing Conferences. Stenhouse Publishers. 2012.
  • Overmeyer, Mark. When Writing Workshop Isn’t Working: Answers to Ten Tough Questions. Stenhouse Publishers. 2005.
  • Portalupi, Joann and Ralph Fletcher. Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8. Stenhouse Publishers. 2001.
  • Prelutsky, Jack. Read A Rhyme, Write A Rhyme: Poems. Knopf Books for Young Readers. 1st ed., 2005.
  • Ray, Katie Wood. Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom. National Council of Teachers of English. 1999.
  • Shubitz, Stacey. Craft Moves: Lesson Sets for Teaching Writing with Mentor Texts. Stenhouse Publishers. 2016.
  • Wolf, Allan. Immersed in Verse: An Informative, Slightly Irreverent & Totally Tremendous Guide to Living the Poet’s Life. Lark Books. 2006.

For Writers

For Children’s Writers

First and foremost, join the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators!

  • "...the writer's ending is, for the reader, always a beginning."
    — Krista Tippett
  • "I have come to love questions more than answers, for it is in our seeking that we are most alive, most open, most willing to come to new understanding."
    — Elizabeth S.E. McBride
  • "The expansiveness that comes from thinking someone else's thoughts and seeing through someone else's eyes is the chief gift bestowed by the written word."
    — Baba Brinkman
  • "...if you listen carefully, as you read, you'll hear a voice whispering to you gently: "you are not alone."
    — Samantha Cristoforetti
  • “What you read becomes part of your human adventure, the world you will make with your words and your life.”
    — Krista Tippett
  • “There is a sweetness in being blindsided by life, by truth, by a dark corner suddenly illumined. There is sheer joy in epiphany.”
    — James Calvin Schaap
  • “…we seek an enlargement of being…We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as our own.”
    — C. S. Lewis
  • “To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know. Thus, creative writing requires a real act of trust.”
    — Henri Nouwen
  • “Editing is when you get to play with someone in the sandbox of language.”
    — Joe Morgenstern
  • “We take great care with our words, for they are meant to get into our bloodstream.”
    — Richard Foster
  • “Cherish your curiosity. It is your questions that will shape you.”
    — David Delgado
  • “Every day I walk out into the world to be dazzled, then to be reflective.”
    — Mary Oliver
  • “Writing is a process in which we discover what lives in us”
    — Henri Nouwen
  • “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
    — Virginia Woolf