December 1-5, 2009:

Book News: I have received first copies of On the Slant, my photographic autobiography for the middle grades, first color xeroxes of Hush Little Horsie with the wonderful Ruth Sanderson's awwwww-inspiring paintings of horses and their babies.

Started a new picture book called The Mermaid Who Loved A Pirate which seems to be a rhyming Little Mermaid Meets the Dread Pirate Roberts/Long John Silver and girl rescues boy plus "The Keeper of the Eddystone Light" which I used to sing as a child at...