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One of the cool things about visiting schools is seeing all the great artwork students do based on the Percy Jackson books. Recently, I got to have a pizza lunch…

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The tour for The Sea of Monsters has been phenomenal! Many thanks to Anderson’s, Diane’s, Bank Street Books, Books of Wonder and all the other great bookstores who have sponsored…

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Man, I wish I could write these books as fast as the kids can read them! I’ve had so many great emails from young readers, telling me they finished Sea…

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A fan sent this photo from a holiday in Greece. This brave young half-blood (who really is the child of a mother named Athena, go figure!) is holding the pen-sword…

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This was an interesting article in the news today. Sitting still perhaps isn’t always the best thing for kids. I’ve suspected for years that a middle schooler’s incessant need to…

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The Penderwicks, by Jeanne Birdsall. I’ll admit I approach award-winning children’s books with some trepidation. All too often, children’s literature awards denote books that appeal to adult librarians and book…

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A great article on ADHD from today’s New York Times. I love the term “attention surplus disorder.” Perhaps the half-bloods from The Lightning Thief are right. ADHD was a useful…

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A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray.Okay, so I was a little slow discovering this, but since Rebel Angels just came out, I figured I would read the first…

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The cartoon pretty much says it all! In Frank McCourt’s most recent memoir, Teacher Man, he writes about the huge increase in attention he got when his book Angela’s Ashes…

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Today is the first day of TAKS, the standardized test all students are required to take in Texas. As I read the article below in my local paper, I wasn’t…

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