by Mary E. Cronin | Apr 16, 2016 | Conferences-workshops, LGBTQ+, SCBWI, Uncategorized, We Need Diverse Books
“Who’s your real mom?” “What do you mean you don’t have a dad/mom?” “Please bring these permission slips home to your moms and dads.” Life is just different for kids of LGBTQ parents. They navigate awkward questions, tricky social situations, and heteronormative...
by Mary E. Cronin | Apr 7, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, Middle-grade fiction, We Need Diverse Books
I had the privilege of watching author James Howe present to Nauset Regional Middle School today– the whole school. (I have an inside advantage: my wife Bonnie is a guidance counselor there!) He spoke at two different schools today, and will give an evening...
by Mary E. Cronin | Mar 29, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, Middle-grade fiction, Poetry, Teaching, We Need Diverse Books
Raising a Reader! I’m offering this community education class in May 2016 at the Cape Cod Campus of Bridgewater State University. Raising a Reader is a non-credit course aimed at parents and caregivers who want to infuse a love of reading and books into their...
by Mary E. Cronin | Mar 25, 2016 | Middle-grade fiction
“You can’t survive if you only see the darkness, if you cannot laugh and love and if you don’t have hope in your heart.” ~author Sarah Moore Fitzgerald When I was asked to review an Irish middle-grade novel for the Project Mayhem...
by Mary E. Cronin | Mar 14, 2016 | Conferences-workshops, SCBWI
“Don’t be self-deprecating. Come at me with some confidence.” That was the bracing advice on queries from agent Heather Alexander yesterday at the Whispering Pines writing retreat in Rhode Island, hosted by the New England SCBWI. If “Whispering...