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Christian Boer: The man who makes the world read
Imagine you’re reading on an e-reader. As you read, letters like a lowercase b flip upside down, mirroring to become a p. Or the horizontal line in a lowercase e disappears, leaving behind a c. Soon, none of the letters … Continue reading
Posted in Reading
Tagged books, Christian Boer, dyslexia, Dyslexie font, learning, reading
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Fun (and free!) children’s activity resources for parents, teachers
The F-word comes to mind when I brainstorm activities for kids that relate to SARAH & KATY AND THE IMAGINATION BLANKETS. If you’re thinking of a four-letter F-word that is inappropriate at school, you’re on the wrong blog. The one … Continue reading
Posted in Unplugged imagination
Tagged child activities, children, classroom, family, parenting, parents, teacher
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The best feedback I’ve ever received as a writer
Over the weekend, my family gathered at my parents’ house to celebrate my 28th birthday. The family definitely knows me well and had the gifts to prove it: four boxes of banana-flavored Little Debbie Marshmallow Pies, newspaper-print Converse shoes, a … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged book review, books, children, children's books, imagination, writing
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Take a deep breath, read a word at a time: A writer on reading reviews
The first few weeks SARAH & KATY AND THE IMAGINATION BLANKETS was listed on Goodreads, I checked the website obsessively multiple times per day. I was both eager and anxious for that most important of components to a recently published … Continue reading
Borrowing a lesson from Disney to sell books
ONE DAY in college (I forget which class — maybe marketing, or a business course), the professor asked, “What does Disney sell?” He wanted a one-word answer. There is one product, he told the class, that Disney sells. So what … Continue reading
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