Posts by Beth
Moving Forward — Open to Possibilities
As I said in my last blog post of 2013, I won’t be doing my month-end accountability posts this year. Instead, in keeping with my chosen theme for the year of moving forward, the last Monday of each month will feature a post designed to get us all thinking about some aspect of moving forward…
Read MoreFLYGIRL by Sherri L. Smith (YA)
Title: Flygirl Author: Sherri L. Smith Publisher: New York: Speak (Penguin Group), 2008 Genre: YA Fiction Audience Age: 13 to 17 years
Read MoreA Word with Beth about Quotation Mark Quandaries
It’s the third Monday of the month, and that means it’s time to look at a grammatical question sent in by one of my readers. Today’s question has us looking at quotation marks. My thanks to the reader who sent this in. Here’s the question: I know when there’s a quotation, the end punctuation goes…
Read MoreElsie’s Bird — Perfect Picture Book Friday
Title: Elsie’s Bird Author: Jane Yolen Illustrator: David Small Publisher: New York: Philomel, 2010
Read MoreA post in anticipation of Julie Gribble’s blog series
This post is a heads-up notification that NEXT month in this time slot, the second Monday of the month, and moving forward into the months beyond, right here on this blog, there will be a blog series by Julie Gribble, writer, and director of New York Media Works, LLC. No, that picture to the left…
Read MoreYear End, Year Beginning
Janus, the Roman god from whom the month of January derives its name, is usually depicted with two faces, one looking forward, one looking back. He was considered to be able to see both past and future at the same time. As I stand on the brink of another January, I find myself looking both…
Read MoreHAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERIK!
Tomorrow, December 24th, is a very special day in the kidlit world, but we’re celebrating today, because early celebrations extend the joy. In our writing and reading community, there is a person who reads voraciously, writes book reviews by the score (both for his blog and for his local newspaper), has recently published his first…
Read MoreA Word with Beth about Puzzling Punctuation
Welcome to the first post of my new monthly Question and Answer series on grammar and word usage, “A Word With Beth.” In this series, I will do my best to answer questions sent to me by you, my readers, on the grammar and word use questions that have been perplexing you. To send a…
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