"Backyard Weather Watchers"

Muse Magazine: Making Predictions

July/August 2021


Teacher's Guide 

 

Discover how you can be a 

Backyard Weather Watcher with CoCoRaHS

The Community Collaborative 

Rain, Hail & Snow Network! 

 
 
 


"Ice Music"

Spider Magazine

January 2021

 

Discover how people carve real, working instruments from ice 

- and then use these ICE-struments to perform music in a concert hall made of ice! 

 

"Beyond Jack-o'-Lanterns"
Spider Magazine
October 2017
Honor Certificate
 for Nonfiction
Society of Children's Book
Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
2018 Magazine Merit Awards
 
 
 

"Just Enough for Me"
Ladybug Magazine
September 2015
25th Anniversary Issue
Letter of Merit Award
 for Fiction
Society of Children's Book
Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
2016 Magazine Merit Awards

Artwork ©Joseph Cowman

Meet Nathan, a plucky, little kindergartner whose love of all things "dinosaurs" helps ease his kindergarten jitters! 


Balloons Lit. Journal
Issue 10 

October 2019


A poem celebrating the wonders reflected in a sunlit pond

"Buildings to Explore"
Highlights High Five
May 2019

A poem puzzle celebrating the many buildings to discover 
in the city
 

"Beyond Jack-o'-Lanterns"

"Pumpkin Rockets"

Spider Magazine

October 2017



 

Think "outside the pumpkin" and learn about the amazing things the folks in Damariscotta, Maine do with the Atlantic Giant Pumpkin!  Join in the adventure of the annual Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta. Then BLAST OFF and race your friends with your own Pumpkin Rocket!




"Bus Ride"

Highlights Hello

April 2017




A poem celebrating a young child's adventures

on a city bus trip to the zoo

Spider Magazine

January 2016


Teacher's Guide



In 1928, a machine arrived at a science museum. It was very old and quite mysterious. It was an early kind of  robot!  You'll be amazed at what this old robot  can do!


"Gigantic Pumpkin Boats"
Fun for Kidz:
Weird and Wacky
September 2016



What do you do with a GIANT pumpkin? You could decorate it, or you could do what the people in a small town in Maine do. They hollow them out and then race them in the river! Remarkable!


"Maillardet's

Mysterious Machine"

Boys' Quest : Robots

December 2013




In 1928, a machine arrived at a science museum. It was very old and quite mysterious. It was an early kind of  robot!  You'll be amazed at what this old robot  can do!

 



“Brick by Brick”

Spider Magazine

September 2014 





Check out LEGO artist, Nathan Sawaya's amazing sculptures and learn all about his life as a LEGO brick artist!  Imagine what YOU can create with these colorful bricks!



“The Music

of the Rocks”

Boys’ Quest : Rocks

December 2015



What kind of rocks ring like a bell? The rocks in the boulder field at Ringing Rocks Park in Upper Black, Eddy, PA.  Grab your hammer and come along for this very different kind of "rock" concert! 


"A Different
Kind of Dog"
Fun For Kidz: Nifty Rodents
September 2015

What kind of dog lives under the ground?
A prairie dog!
You're sure to discover some "Nifty  Rodent" facts as you read about this very different kind of "dog!"
 

Forthcoming Magazine Publications

 

"Sleepy, Sleepy Little Bear"

Highlights Hello, 2021


"Story Time"

Highlights Hello, 2021