Not that I really need to justify a trip to England, but I really, truly had things to do there that couldn't be done on the internet...

As I threatened a few weeks ago, I am sharing the whole messy process of this book, A Fine Dessert , written by Emily Jenkins – the de...

I have been burying myself in research for A Fine Dessert, in a lovely, but boggy sort of way. For instance, I spent the better part of a ...

  As I mentioned in the last post, Emily Jenkin's A Fine Dessert begins: A bit more than three hundred years ago, in an E...

A Fine Dessert is a book about blackberry fool, made by a farmer's wife and her daughter in England in 1710, a plantation slave and her...

I am starting in on a new picture book. It's always an exciting time; blank canvas and all that. When it's a book you've writte...

Here are a few of my delightful visitors at the Princeton Book Festival last weekend. Over 75 girls, a few boys and one brave librarian d...