gemma D. alexander

I love the speech at the end of the movie Ratatouille that talks about critics. It starts with the statement, Negative criticism is fun to...

My daughter discovered Percy Jackson in the third grade and hasn’t read much else since. I have defended this choice, because like Neil Gaiman and...

The main train station in Kyoto....

Have you heard about the writer whose goal was to collect 100 rejections in a year? Have you heard about the writer who is trying...

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s books A Little Princess and The Secret Garden are two of my favorite childhood reading experiences. I did not find out until...