Cathleen Davitt Bell
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Another trailer!
I love the idea of a book trailer. This is the second one for Little Blog and I love it. Comes from someone in Ohio.
Gen’s Nightmare Come True
One question I get asked a lot about Little Blog on the Prairie is: Do camps like this really exist? I always explain how I made this camp up when I was nine, trapped in the back seat on a long car trip. Back then, it appeared to me to be a dream come true. [...]
Princeton Book Festival — Saturday Sept 10th
If you live in the Princeton, NJ area come see me this Saturday: I will have a Little Blog on the Prairie table at the Princeton Public Library’s book fair 11am-4pm.
Where I’ll teach any and all how to make butter.
And where I will not wear a bonnet.
(I’m not kidding about either of [...]
story
In graduate school, I was trained (sort of) to write short stories. I didn’t read short stories, except in the New Yorker because it’s always lying around the house, and I was always confused by the idea of writing in this form––just as you get to know a character, the story is over. But occasionally, [...]
Feburary Bloom
This apostle plant blooms in my window at this time of year––my wedding anniversary, my daughter’s birth, Valentine’s Day.
This plant is a descendant––a cutting of a cutting of a cutting––of one that belonged to my great grandmother. Between second and sixth grades, my mother, sister and I lived in a tiny, crumbling half-a-house in [...]
Book Club
I started a book club of 5th and 6th graders at the school my children go to last week. We read Suzanne’s Collins’ Gregor the Overlander. It was so fun to sit around a table eating bagels talking about the parts of the story we loved or that made us mad, our favorite characters and [...]
And the Oscar goes to…
Isn’t this awesome???
Little Blog picked for Texas Lone Star Reading List
I was thrilled to hear this week that Little Blog was selected for the Texas Lone Star reading list. This is great news and I felt appropriate with the frontier connection to Texas. The list goes out to middle school librarians all across the state, which means that kids in Texas are likely to get [...]
The Bonnet Cam Goes Live at Last
Last spring, my editor Melanie handed me a shopping bag filled with the 1890s clothes Bloomsbury bought for the LITTLE BLOG cover shoot. She thought I should wear them to readings.
I felt so red and prickly at the very idea of dressing up in the clothes (to paraphrase David Sedaris’ observations of people dressed [...]
Real life Little Blog experience?
Just read about farm camping via a link my sister in law sent me from Redbook Mag:
http://www.redbookmag.com/kids-family/advice/unplugged-vacation?click=main_sr
I saw something about this kind of farm vacation last year in the Times. http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/dining/26farms.html
You go on vacation to someone’s farm. Just like in the book.