Heather Ayris Burnell

With the mounds of snow right outside my door, I've been doing a lot of cross country skiing lately. It's peaceful, shushing through...

Due to holidays and illnesses and that sort of thing, The Unread is going to take a December break but will return on January 20th. Woohoo!

Christmas books are so fun to read throughout the month of December. Kid's minds are already swirling with possibilities of what is and ...

A class of third graders read my book, Chocolate, A Library Adventure, and wrote a sequel of their own. Isn't that cool! It's great ...

I took part in Tara Lazar's Picture Book Idea Month in November. The challenge was to come up with thirty picture book ideas in thirty d...

Retold Tales are fun! Most of us are familiar with classic stories and nursery rhymes, but even if we're not, new twists and retelling c...

This month I used my wonder twin powers to transform Lisha Cauthen into a person who would let me ask her tons of questions and take an actu...