When I was growing up, summers were times to run barefoot, play kickball and our version of baseball, camp, ride bikes, read books, explore the weedy, woody places where no one had yet built a house or a store, run a little bit wild. Come September, we got new shoes,...
Tuesday, May 15, 5-7 pm Sisters’ Sludge Coffee Cafe and Wine Bar Please join us for an informal Happy Hour, book signing and photo exhibit! Saturday, May 26, noon Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery, Park Rapids Presentation and books signing with tips on...
Anywhere Farm has been named a Book of Outstanding Merit — Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year for Under Five and has been shortlisted for The Nature Generation 2018 Green Earth Book...
In spring 2018, Phyllis’ first grown-up book will come out, Searching for Minnesota’s Native Wildflowers, A Guide for Beginners, Botanists, and Everyone in Between. Published by the University of Minnesota Press, it’s a collaboration with a photographer friend...
Once, when I was completely stuck on a manuscript that was collapsing under its own cumulative weight an editor said, “Maybe this story wants to be a manipulative book.” She was suggesting an interactive picture book, one with, say, flaps to lift or pop-ups or...
