Reading Zone with a View, No. 4: Portland's East End Beach: a stop along the East End Trail while walking, breathing in salt air, and turning pages. This is how a book lover who can't sit… instagram.com/p/BnCSJyilzwH/…

This stack of mid-August reads is brought to you by third trimester insomnia...and the Portland Library ME Pregnancy has some reading perks! (The Chabon and McDermott were my favorites.) instagram.com/p/BnGq8F1FNto/…

Reading Zone with a View, No. 5: Code Girls by Liza Mundy at Willard Beach in South Portland. This book, as its subtitle says "the untold story of the American women code breakers of… instagram.com/p/BnJg3EsFdxD/…

Reading field trips are the best. Nothing beats a visit to a new, excellent bookstore, and Elements in Biddeford, Maine, is quite wonderful: lots of used books, lattes and beers, and some… instagram.com/p/BnMSG0RlZ9t/…

Reading Zone with a View, No. 6: A view of my husband today, reading by the Saco River in North Conway, New Hampshire. I'm lucky to be married to someone who will comply when I force a… instagram.com/p/BnRJbQwl81Z/…

Loving our baby, paternity leave, and this amazing man.

Well, this is an excellent list.

The bebe and I got to explore Books Are Magic in Carroll Gardens this weekend. We picked him up a favorite winter read: getting ready for those snowy days 📚 ❄️ 🌃 @ Brooklyn, New York instagram.com/p/Bpz7mfQnzWt/…

Have you voted? Here are two books to inspire you. These authors both worked in the Obama White House in very different roles: Pfeiffer as Communications Director and Senior Strategist and… instagram.com/p/Bp2ey_onCZN/…

Doorbusters galore!

L. M. Montgomery was born #onthisday in 1874...and in this house on Prince Edward Island // "People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words… instagram.com/p/Bq0yy1DHGHr/…

Check out the Merry Barn in midcoast Maine!

If you'd love to see writing and reading workshop in action (in grades K-4 or 5-8), consider spending a week in Maine at the Center for Teaching and Learning. More information at: c-t-l.org/internships/ I'd love to see you in Edgecomb!

Looking forward to another year of welcoming teachers to CTL!

Great to hear! Thanks 💫

It's not too late to apply to spend a week seeing writing and reading workshops in action at the Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb, Maine! Visit c-t-l.org/internships to apply.

Can’t wait to tell this little guy about how the Washington Nationals were able to #STAYINTHEFIGHT and win the World Series. Like, weekly. Maybe daily!

Congrats to the World Champion Washington Nationals and their fans! A great group that always showed up when it counted and was never afraid to show a little joy: dancing in the dugout, laughing, believing, and always sticking together. A true team with a spirit that’d do us all well.

I’m so interested in your work with this. Sounds promising!

Words of wisdom from Nancie Atwell in The Reading Zone we continue to ignore "Starting in kindergarten and going straight through until the end of the high school, free choice of books should be a young reader's right, not a privilege granted by a kind teacher."