Story is a powerful way to build compassion and bridge understanding between cultures. Story has the power to heal as well as teach.
Recent Books by Nancy Bo Flood
Beyond Boundaries · Essays and tidbits from Nancy Bo Flood
Find the fire in your writing!
May 12, 2022
I hope you’ll join me, in person or via livestream, for Creative Writing I and II, offered through Colorado Mountain College.
Walking Grandma Home
May 10, 2022
Looking forward to Walking Grandma Home being available to children and families, January 10, 2023, from Zonderkidz.
A month … a year of poetry
May 5, 2022
Thank you for sharing this month of poetry. Poetry is quiet. Poetry roars. May poetry be part of many of your days this year.
Jane Yolen
April 30, 2022
Can you tell us how your recent book When Nana Dances came to be?
My co-author on this book, Maddison Stemple-Piatt, is my granddaughter.…
We Belong, a Book Recommendation
April 26, 2022
In We Belong, with bright digital illustrations and a bouncy, engaging rhythm, Laura Purdie Salas introduces the reader to the many ways we are different as well as the many ways we all belong.
Nikki Grimes
April 23, 2022
When I asked Nikki to take part in my National Poetry Month celebration, I knew the possibilities of books to discuss were many. Nikki writes in poetry and sometimes prose, from picture books to middle grade novels to young adult…
Sensory Images and Metaphor
April 21, 2022
Working with students in their classroom, after talking about creating sensory images and the use of metaphor, I read one of my favorite poems, “Seven Ways of Looking at Eagles,” written by Tonia Scabby Face, Lakota, a middle-school student at…