This month, the ReaderKidZ are pleased to introduce James Rumford, this month’s Author-in-Residence and the author/illustrator of FROM THE GOOD MOUNTAIN: How Gutenberg Changed the World. (Find a ReaderKidZ review HERE.) After I graduated from college, my wife and I joined the Peace Corps and went to Chad and Afghanistan. We were teachers. I suppose… Read more »
Author-In-Residence
Welcome to ReaderKidZ November: Biographies
Biographies are about people who have done extraordinary things and/or changed the world in some unique way. Kids connect with the fact that a biography’s subject, whether famous, or from far away, or even from the past, is just like them in many ways. And we can all be inspired by a glimpse of the… Read more »
What’s Your Story, Joan Bauer?
Hello, Joan Bauer. Welcome to ReaderKidZ! Would you mind telling us a little about your childhood? My mom was a high school English teacher and my grandmother was a storyteller, so stories always seemed to be bouncing off the walls of our house. I always felt that stories helped explain the world. I always wanted to… Read more »
Almost Home, by Joan Bauer
In Almost Home, the reader gets a sense of protagonist Sugar Mae Cole’s progressive downward spiral into devastating poverty, homelessness, and life as a foster child. Sugar Mae is a good kid working to maintain a positive outlook on life as the walls of stability shatter all around her. In the novel, author Joan Bauer also reveals… Read more »
Your Friend, Louise Borden
DEAR READER, Years ago when I was attending elementary school in Cincinnati, Ohio, I had no clue that I would someday grow up to be a writer. I was too busy playing with my older sister Cindy, my younger sister Margaret and our friends in the neighborhood. On blue sky days, I loved to ride… Read more »
What’s Your Story, Louise Borden?
What’s your story? Who? Where? When? Let your readers know something interesting about your childhood years. Include the good and the bad, the funny and the serious. I had a wonderful childhood! I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and because of this I’m an avid baseball fan. My father used to take his three daughters… Read more »
Your Friend, Susanna Reich
Dear Readers: Thank you for reading Minette’s Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it! When I was a kid, my whole family used to watch “The French Chef,” Julia Child’s cooking show on TV. She was enthusiastic, skillful,… Read more »
