Celebrating Earth Week 2026 With a Town Wide Vernal Pool Bingo Game! This spring, we’re inviting the whole community to step into one of nature’s most magical (and often overlooked) worlds… vernal pools . From April 22–26, join us for Vernal Pool Bingo —a playful, town-wide game inspired by The Noisy Puddle   that turns Concord. Massachusetts into a discovery trail of frogs, fairy shrimp, salamanders, and more. 🟩 Wander through town 🟩 Spot vernal pool creatures in shop wind

WHEN: February 24, 2026 at 11 am New York | 4 pm London | 12 am Beijing | Time Converter How do we help children develop their own confidence to navigate a complex, interconnected world? In this interactive seminar, I'll be drawing from my new children’s book Do Bees Pee? as an entry point for introducing systems thinking in developmentally appropriate and playful ways. Through a guided discussion and a hands-on activity, we'll explore how core systems concepts—such as inter

So excited to share this! 🏛️ I’ll be heading to Washington, DC this December to present at the 105th National Council for the Social Studies conference—together with the incredible teacher-librarian Dr. Melaney Sanchez. 🇺🇸 This year’s theme—BECAUSE DEMOCRACY DEPENDS ON IT—gets to the heart of why we teach social studies in public schools. (Quick history dip here: In the late 1800s and early 1900s, America was undergoing massive industrialization, urbanization, and immigrat

What a thrill! I'm very grateful to the  Massachusetts Center for the Book  for recognizing THE NOISY PUDDLE as the Best Picture Book of the year, calling it “a book which dazzles children while educating them about the remarkable ecology of the vernal pool.” "Why write a book about a puddle that disappears? I got that question a lot, or at least I saw it in people’s faces when I told them what I was working on. But what I discovered is that the so-called puddle—a vernal poo