FEATURED BOOKS

FREE FOR YOU AND ME: What Our First Amendment Means, is full of poems and stories about our First Amendment freedoms, with kid-friendly illustrations by Manu Montoya. We've created a lively book for young readers (and I hear from older readers that they like it too) and I hope you will love it! 
Available for pre-order now. If you order online (or in person) through indie bookstore Bear Pond Books, I'll sign your book before it's shipped to you -- PLUS, you'll receive a special bookmark, while supplies last. 
​Click here. More information here. ​

HEY, HEY, HAY! (A Tale of Bales and the Machines That Make them)
TEACHERS: Teacher's Guide available here
A rhyming romp in the hayfields, this tale follows a mother-daughter team making hay on their farm --with tractors!

• For a book with a personalized author autograph, you may order online through Bear Pond Books, here, and I'll sign your book before it's shipped to you. For detailed directions, see my HAY page here. 
• Indiebound
• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble

Read about what inspired me to write HEY, HEY, HAY, here; and more about my books and writing here. 

DIET FOR A CHANGING PLANET: Food for Thought
​(Twenty-first Century Books/Lerner 2018)
Short-listed for the Green Earth Book Awards, this YA nonfiction invites readers to consider how their food choices affect the environment ... and how eating unexpected dishes is a stop toward healing the earth. Crickets, weeds, invasive species -- check it out!

• Lerner
• Indiebound
• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble

IMPERFECT: POEMS ABOUT MISTAKES
Two of my poems (both double dactyls) appear in this poetry anthology for middle schoolers about making mistakes, and recovering from them.

• Indiebound
• Amazon​

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Represented by Erzsi Deàk
Hen & Ink Literary         

I love the magic and power of words, and I'm convinced that writing for kids is the best job ever. I'm always learning something new . . . about topics from the machines that make hay to eating invasive insects, from solar power to jumbo squids to the American civil rights movement. 

I write articles, stories, essays, poems, and children’s books. I'm particularly drawn to nonfiction, and am a founding member of GROG, the group blog for writers and readers of children’s literature. After living in Oregon, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, New Hampshire, California, and Spain, I'm settled happily with my family in rural Vermont. There, I write at a table overlooking fields and forests, under the supervision of my dog and my cat. Want to know more about my “writing life”? Click HERE.

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