nancy bo flood

Thankful for readers and librarians and bookstores and teachers and parents and grandparents—all who make our world of readers!

Wishing you a wonderful — and healthy — holiday season!

For a few more weeks, we continue our celebration of books…

A new book soon to be released is Twitch, a YA novel written by Linda Boyden with illustrations by Kaylene Bigknife. Take a look at the amazing cover.

Two recommendations this week, two publishers:

A new novel series from Rick Riordan Presents! Fans and those who have yet to discover his book series…

To honor and give thanks to the first Americans and today’s citizens of over 500 tribal nations, I encourage everyone to read books by and about Native people. Each week this month I will describe a variety of excellent, amazing,…

You don’t have to be good or first
Not even smartest or most right.
If you are kind, that is what our world needs most.

To the writer, put this magnet on your refrigerator door, and reflect on this poem.

I would like to share my favorite poem which I read to my writing students every workshop I teach. Let your imagination soar.

I am a process … not a thing, not a piece of matter. What do I mean? Try reading this profound paragraph and let it roll around in your brain.