Boreas Elected for Reading Promotion!
Founded in 2012, the Dutch National Reading Coalition (Leescoalitie) promotes and stimulates reading in schools in the Netherlands. Every two years, the Reading Coalition publishes an anthology with...
View ArticleShelter in Place
What happens to a writer when there is a shelter-in-place edict that shrinks your physical world to proportions of times passé? Not much, I thought. I’ll be fine, I thought. I’m a writer and, by...
View ArticleBooks at the Bay Area Book Festival
It was a steep learning curve, this shelter-in-place pivot from an in-person book festival to an online happening. Instead of two glorious days in May in downtown Berkeley, we worked round the clock to...
View ArticleGet Ready for Berkeley #Unbound – GIRLS GARAGE
Our beloved Bay Area Book Festival is back with another exciting event: Berkeley #Unbound, an all-day, free virtual mini-festival with, of course, two riveting youth programs. On Sunday, October 4 we...
View ArticleYouth! Bay Book Fest is Coming!
I did a thing. Again! This weekend the Bay Area Book Festival will celebrate its seventh anniversary and I put together a truly kickass program for our youth readers. A huge huge shoutout to my...
View ArticleBoreas and the Seven Seas for Reluctant Readers
A special educational edition of Boreas en de zeven zeeën (Boreas and the Seven Seas) by Noordhoff Educational Publishers in their famous Lijster series, books by top authors especially selected by...
View ArticleBoreas Sails On As a Vroege Lijster!
No joy greater for a writer than receiving your author copies! In the midst of my first bout of Covid-19, a wonderful box of books arrived at my Berkeley writer’s abode. And this was a special...
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