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While I am the youngest of seven, which suggests a crowd, there was a lot of time when I was the only game in town. The straggler left behind. For a couple of years, I was the only kid in the house.
I have fuzzy memories of this (mandatory) weekend in Washington, D.C. I think my sister Jean was there, too.
I don’t recall it as a super great time or anything. We went to the U.S. Mint. Nixon was probably in the White House at the time. Tricky Dick: “Let me make this perfectly clear about that.”
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AND COINCIDENTALLY, my new book!
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Here in the northeast, I think everyone is back to school. To celebrate that, here’s a page that captures some of that first-day feeling, a little senryu (haiku format w/ a focus on human activities rather than nature). This comes from our book, All Welcome Here, gloriously illustrated by my wonderful pal, Mary Grandpre. (Mary illustrated the first editions of the Harry Potter books, so you are likely familiar with her work.) All Welcome Here was a back-to-school book and one of the many casualties of the pandemic. It landed with a thud and is already out of print. So much for immortality!
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Good news! I’m pleased to see that my new book, Two Birds and a Moose, illustrated by Abigail Burch, has been named a Junior Library Guild Selection.
