My Favorites

Picture Book Author
    Mac Barnett
    Margaret Wise Brown       
Chapter Book Authors
    Kathi Appelt
    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
    Beverly Cleary
​    Shari Green
    Kevin Henkes
    Jennifer Holm
    Trisha Springstubb
    Jane Yolen
Adult Fiction 
    Daphne du Maurier  
    Alice Hoffman
    John Steinbeck
Non-Fiction 
    Steve Sheinkin
Poets
    Elizabeth Bishop
    Robert Frost
    Mary Oliver
    Joyce Sidman   
Blogs about writing and writers
    Children's Book Academy www.childrensbookacademy.com/blogateers   
    The Purple Crayon  www.underdown.org
    A Song of Six Pens www.songofsixpens.blogspot.com
Movies 
    Doctor Zhivago
    The Godfather (yep, all three)
    Wizard of Oz
    Young Frankenstein
Random Stuff
    Cerulean skies with wispy clouds, Ben and Jerry's 7 layer coconut ice cream, walking barefoot on thick lawns full of fresh cut grass, daffodils, daisies and bluebells, belly-laughing babies, foamy surf, golden leaves that glow even in the shade, snowflake art on frosted windows, Pumpkin's little pink nose, Tippy's tippy-white toes, Frances's silky fur . . .