El Dorado School Visit

School Visit Focuses on State Projects

Oliver in Europe with Triplets

Halversons Take Oliver to Portugal, Spain, France and London, England

One of the nicest things about working on the Oliver K. Woodman books were my editors at Harcourt. They were smart, efficient and experts in making a picture book’s text and images come together.
Deborah Halverson did most of the editing work on Searching for Oliver K. [...]

Olivers Travels

You saw it here first! Oliver has a new website and he’s having lots of fun this summer!
Geotagging: A Social App for Geography Fun
Our knowledge of geography is becoming more sophisticated: If you own a smart phone, like the Apple iPhone 3G or some Blackberrys, the phone will automatically adds geotags – location information – [...]

Mapping Oliver

Revision Notes will be on Spring Break for the next two weeks, with maybe one or two posts in there. In this post, I’m just catching up on some personal things.
Successful Lesson Plans for Picture Books
Lesson Plans for Darcy Pattison’s picture books are available as a free pdf download. Included are over 100 activities for [...]

Prioritize

What Do Writers Do All Day?
I’m just back from Illinois where last weekend, I taught a Novel Revision retreat to a fantastic group of writers. One of the humorous things that happened: One writer had a chapter in which a character wrote about a condominium, but the character couldn’t spell, so wrote, “. . [...]