Coming Home

I had a wonderful weekend at the Children's Literature New England colloquy http://www.clne.org/ , where Peter Sis charmed us with the story of his life, Ashley Bryan read poems for an hour, and many amazing writers talked brilliantly about books we'd read beforehand. We were reminded that anything can happen in Vermont as we admired pear trees in bloom and we walked, at least through the parking lot, under falling snow. I joined a discussion about nonfiction, which was fascinating, though I...