Author, Tree Street Kids
Each heavy rain sets everyone on edge. Since the floods, the towering trees, the still-under-repair mountain roads, and the compromised bridges beneath our cars and tractors and feet feel fragile, like clay models built by a boy dreaming of other lands…
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Two things that inspired the writing of my third book in the Tree Street Kids series for kids 8-12 (Moody Publishers) were historic efforts to reach people who didn’t have easy access to books.
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Why do kids in western North Carolina need books when they don’t have drinkable water? It was hard not to wonder this…
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We can tend to over romanticize the people who exhibit this virtue, especially in times of severe trial.
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If you’re a book lover, writer, educator, or parent/guardian of young readers, you’ll enjoy the bookish and nature-y content in…
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Lions to the Rescue wins a Selah Award! . . . When I was a kid, I won a goldfish at a carnival. The fish was swimming in circles in a small, round bowl surrounded by other goldfish swimming in circles in small, round bowls. The goal was to toss a ping pong ball into this segregated school of fish and hope the ping pong ball would somehow defy physics and actually stick a landing on the surface of the water in one of the bowls.
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Big book news! And a giveaway to celebrate.
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Crow research and cappuccinos were the order of the afternoon…
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I wondered: How could I bring my blog followers, Instagram friends, and Tree Street Kids readers together in one space to serve you all better…AND escape the whims of the social media algorithm gods? The answer…
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What’s on the new Tree Street Kids series website…?
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Amanda Cleary Eastep 