The kids and I love these games:

One is more of a memory game from

This one though is a great way to learn states and countries. The kids and I have gone through the South America map getting ready for our trip to Bolivia in July.

Hope you enjoy these sites as much as we do!

The CW list on yahoo is a big and busy joint. Posts fly fast and furious and I often skim titles and delete, but if you need help, there will come an answer fast (in triplicate, at least).

The NF for kids list is also very helpful for nonfiction writers.

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators is, in my opinion, an organization you must belong to if you are a children’s book writer. With conferences and contests galore, SCBWI is the place to be if you want to meet other fun children’s book lovers.

Check out their contests to win a free membership, even.

By far, the posts that get the most hits on this blog are the four posts dealing with Susan Pevensie which start here. The search words most used to find this little old blog are “The Problem of Susan” and “Neil Gaiman, the problem of susan.”

Thousands of people are searching to find out what Neil thinks about Susan, CS Lewis, and Narnia, apparently. Or they are looking for his hideous short story on the subject.

In celebration of the new Narnia movie, Prince Caspian, which comes out this month, I figured I’d give all you happy little searchers a new page to look at. Check out this fellow’s take on the problem of Susan–it’s a little long but read the first section, at least. It’s very good.

Happy trails. Happy reading. Happy heretic hunting.

Wow! Free books galore!

I wanted to put a poem up—one of my favorites from my childhood—and I was searching to see if it was in the public domain. Not only is it available online, the book it was in, Silver Pennies, is all there, pictures and all.

So here is The Child Next Door, by Rose Fyleman:

The child next door has a wreath on her hat;
Her afternoon frock sticks out like that,
All soft and frilly;
She doesn’t believe in fairies at all
(She told me over the garden wall)
She thinks they’re silly.

The child next door has a watch of her own;
She has shiny hair and her name is Joan;
(Mine’s only Mary).
But doesn’t it seem very sad to you
To think that she never her whole life through
Has seen a fairy?

Go check out the book, Silver Pennies, and the site that hosts it, Arthur’s Classic Novels.