Stories that are part of our lives
Illustrator Claudia McGehee, writers Liza Ketchum, Phyllis Root, and I are so excited that our book–Begin with a Bee–will also come out into the world in May. There will be celebrations and much reading and sharing.
We are in deep winter, deep beautiful winter. But under our frozen ground sleep rusty-patch bumble bee queens. They will come out of their underground nests in April and May. There will be celebrations and much reading and sharing–when the snow has melted.
(Note: This party was held March 4, 2017).
Several years ago a long-lost creek in northeast Iowa came back to life. It did so with the help of Mike Osterholm, who acted on a hint and a hunch to add the nearly-forgotten waterway into his efforts to return an old cornfield to the prairie it had once been.
Osterholm’s story is told with loving simplicity in Creekfinding: A True Story, a picture book aimed at ages 4-9. Martin, McGehee and Osterholm will all be on hand this Saturday, March 4, at Prairie Lights for a launch party for the book. [ Read More ]
