A Word With Beth
Coming on October 28th (a heads-up, teaser post)
You aren’t seeing things! I’ve brought my blog out of storage because I want to make sure you come back two weeks from today, on Perfect Picture Book Friday, October 28, for A Boisterous, Comical, Delightful, Engaging, Fun-filled, Glorious, Hilarious, Inspirational, Jazzy, Kooky, Lighthearted and slightly Lagomorphic, Magical, Nocturnal (in a way), Out-of-the-ordinary, Playful, Quirkily…
Read MoreA Bit About Author Beverley Brenna
If you’ve been around my blog for any length of time, you’ll know that I love to post about author Beverley Brenna. She’s a Canadian author of picture books, middle grade novels, and YA novels. One of her YA novels was a Prinz honor book a few years ago. She’s versatile, writing thoughtful, insightful books…
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Having Heart and Hope in the Hard Times
From time to time on By Word of Beth, I delve into the blog’s archives, and repost something that can perhaps speak to us again. Throughout this pandemic, we have all been dealing with unprecedented difficulties, with things we have never experienced before, with hard times. Perhaps this post from 2017 can give us some…
Read MoreA Bit About Author Rajani LaRocca
This year, when I share a book recommendation here on By Word of Beth, I plan to do a separate post the day before to introduce you to the author, so you’ll know a bit about the person before you read about the book. When I’m recommending a picture book, I’ll post about both author…
Read MoreWelcome Back to “By Word of Beth”
*peeks out of my burrow* *looks around* *whispers ‘anybody here?’* *crawls out of the burrow and dusts off my fur* As this gopher has surmised, it’s time to come out of the burrow and reboot my blog. Or maybe that should be rear-boot, as in boot in the rear to get me blogging again. *grin*…
Read More“He’s Just Like Me!” – Why I Write What I Write
First of all, a word of explanation: this is the first post in a new monthly series called This Writer’s Voice. Please note that the series is not about the elusive concept known as “voice” in writing. It’s a series about writing, looking at the hows and whats and whys of writing, both my writing…
Read MoreA Word with Beth — I Can Really Get INTO This Grammar Problem!
The Owl heard something on the radio the other day that got his feathers in a twist. To straighten them out again, I said I’d do a post about it. He thought it would be best if I used my own example, though. So, here’s my example. A notice appeared on the school bulletin board:…
Read MoreA Word with Beth — about ellipses . . .
The Owl and I had a question sent to us recently that we are happy to answer here in our grammar and word use feature, A Word with Beth. I’ve heard you should have a space before and after an ellipsis. I have seen in books sometimes there is a space before the ellipsis…
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