My good friend Michelle Knudsen is celebrating the release of the third book in her EVIL LIBRARIAN series, so I'm thrilled to have her ...

     It's that time of year when I make cards for all of my friends and students at Hollins University. A big activity here is knitti...

It's been four years since we visited Chateau Morisette, way up past Flloyd and onto the Blue Ridge Parkway. It seemed fitting Stan was ...

We are very lucky to have a world-renowned children's literature conference take place right here on the Hollins campus every summer. Ev...

One of the wonderful things about teaching at Hollins is the rich knowledge the our varied faculty brings to share - including songs. Every ...

Every year the illustration faculty from Hollins University goes to visit the former head of the Art program at Hollins, Nancy Dahlstrom. Sh...

If you've ever been to an academic conference, you've probably asked, 'Why don't they teach academics how to give talks?...

From The New Yorker: Can Reading Make You Happier? From Muddy Colors: Introducing a New Illustration Podcast! From Book Riot: Authors ...

I haven't really given you the full walk-through of my latest picturebook, MERBABY'S LULLABY, written by Jane Yolen - so today's...