by Dianne de Las Casas on November 20, 2011
“Children can have too many toys, but never enough books.” – Jarrett Krosoczka from his Picture Book Month Essay. I created an initiative to designate November as “Picture Book Month.” Katie Davis, Elizabeth Dulemba, Tara Lazar, Wendy Martin, and Australian International Liaison, Christopher Cheng, came on board to help me champion the cause and spread [...]
by Dianne de Las Casas on November 1, 2011
“I have always believed that literature begins in the cradle — the poems we say to the babies, the stories we tell them — prepare them to become part of the great human storytelling community. We humans are the only creatures in the known universe who make and remake our world with story.” – Jane [...]