Kim Culbertson, author of Instructions for a Broken Heart and Songs for a Teenage Nomad, is also a high school teacher. On her website you’ll find recommended activities that go with her books. I particularly like the Song Journal and the Collage Poem activities. You can download instructions for both of these at Culbertson’s website. [...]
I’m a big fan of Ingrid Law, author of Savvy (read my review). So I was thrilled when she agreed to feature a guest post I wrote for her blog about some of the major benefits of being in a mother-daughter book club. I read Savvy with my daughter Catherine when she was 14, and [...]
When I started to date in high school I didn’t know anything about what to expect from a boyfriend, which meant that determining what was good and not so good in a relationship wasn’t all that easy. Thank heavens I’ve learned a lot since then, and I’ve spent time talking with my daughters about healthy [...]
Today Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs is featured on author Laura Whitcomb’s blog. I’m fortunate to live in the same area as Laura, and she was the first author my mother-daughter book club connected with. We invited her to our meeting where we would discuss her book, A Certain [...]
Just over a year ago I met author Kirby Larson while we were attending a Kidlit Blogging Conference here in Portland. I had interviewed Kirby about her writing life and her book, Hattie Big Sky, by email before that, but we hadn’t met in person until then. We got to know each other a [...]
Tanya Egan Gibson has a novel coming out next month called How to Buy a Love of Reading. It’s about a high school girl who has never loved books, and her parents commission a book to be written just for her. Gibson has added a feature to her novel’s website where anyone can share a [...]
Kenn Nesbitt is the author of many beloved books of poetry for children. They’re also fun for adults too. If your mother-daughter book club is considering a poetry meeting soon, you may want to look at this special offer from Nesbitt to celebrate the launch of his new book. Here’s what he has to say: [...]
Claire Dean is the author of Girlwood, a book that’s part reality, part fantasy and very interesting to read. (Read my review.) Today I got the chance to read an essay by Dean, posted by Powell’s Books. In it she talks about some of the things that happened in her earlier life that had an [...]
