© Loree Griffin Burns
The lovely and talented writer-women who produce The 4:00 Book Hook, a free e-mail newsletter for people who share books with kids, recommended my blog to their readers in the September newsletter.
Thank you Book Hookers!
(Wait a second. That doesn’t sound good.)
Thank you, lovely and talented writer-women who produce The 4:00 Book Hook!
(Not much better.)
Anyway, the recommendation reminded me that I have a blog, and that it has been sorely neglected this past month as I vacationed, gardened, and prepared for the upcoming school year. Clearly it’s time to get back on the blog wagon (the blagon?).
The first order of business, of course, is to encourage all of you to subscribe to The 4:00 Book Hook. Doing so is simple (see instructions here) and FREE. You can view back issues (totally worth doing) at the same website. Each month, The Book Hook reviews fiction and non-fiction for young people of any age, and provides teachers and parents with marvelous ideas for linking books with real-life experiences.
The second order of business? Crickets. Katydids. Cicadas. Have you stuck your head outside after dark these past few days? Where I live, doing so is a lesson in night life and biodiversity. If you concentrate just a little bit, you can easily pick out a dozen unique insect calls. My daughter and I have been making a study of these sounds, and of the singers themselves, ever since she found a dead Lyric Cicada in the front yard. (Yes, that’s our dead inspiration in the photo above.) Anyway, we’ve found some very cool resources, and I’d like to share them here.
So stay tuned.
(But be patient!)