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Welcome Friends! Here is a place for teachers, parents, librarians and writers to learn what's going on in the world of book author Karma Wilson.
There are certain words that just sound ridiculous. When I hear them I can’t help but giggle. For instance, “flabbergasted”. I’m sorry, but that sounds like a bodily function, and not a pleasant one (um, is there such thing as a pleasant bodily function…but I digress).
Weimaraner is another one–cute dog, stupid name! Seems to me […]
I didn’t know my dad growing up. I still don’t. Well, I guess I knew him briefly as a child. I have foggy memories of smoky parties that occured during short visits at his Denver apartment–lots of long hair, incense, guitars and group singalongs. But when I moved to Idaho at age seven with my mother all […]
Exciting news! Bear Feels Sick, has been chosen as the one-book, one-state book for Kansas Reads to Preschoolers!
Kansas Reads to Preschoolers, a project of the State Library and chaired by Governor Kathleen Sebelius, is an annual event to highlight the importance of reading to young children. The event is held the week before Thanksgiving […]
As a child I wrapped fairy tales around my mind as I would wrap a snug blanket around myself on a chill day. Stories insulated me from the hard, cold world. But when I reached teen years I longed for a different kind of escape. At that age I read mostly horror, or stark, bleak historical […]
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