Rebecca J. Carlson

When my daughter was five years old she had a pet crab named Clyde. He was purple, two feet across, and invisible. "Mom," she sa...

When my friend Kathy heard I was making a new batch of harps, she said, "I want to make one too!" She paid for the supplies, then ...

Daycare goes dystopian. When Andy packs up for college, his toys think that being donated to Sunnyside Day Care will beat being stored in ...

Anyone seen "Dead Poets Society?" Do you remember that poetry lesson where they tear a page out of the textbook? That was my hig...

I wanted pizza, but I didn't want to heat up the whole house. So I tried something bold and daring. I made pizza outside in the dutch ov...

I loved spending a week at the Writing and Illustrating for Young Reader's Workshop! Friends from two years ago were happy to see me. I ...

The first time I went to the Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Workshop , I had been working on the same book, off and on, for over...