Category Archives: What I’m Writing

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

I’m using this for my Reread an Old Favorite square on my book bingo. Oh Mrs. Frankweiler and your mixed-up files, how I love you. Oh dear Claudia and your elaborate planning, dear Jamie and your pockets full of change, how I love you. Oh dear Metropolitan Museum of Art and your antique beds onContinue reading “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”

A Monster Calls

I’m using this for my Coming to the Big Screen square on my book bingo. In this illustrated novel, Conor accidentally conjurs an enormous monster with a penchant for storytelling to defend him against a larger, more dangerous monster. Cancer. The larger, more dangerous monster is cancer. I promise this doesn’t ruin the story forContinue reading “A Monster Calls”

Little Robot, by Ben Hatke

I’m using this book to check off the Graphic Novel space on my book bingo. Ben Hatke’s new graphic novel Little Robot (First Second, 2015) is the innocent story of a girl who fixes things and her friendship with one of the fixed. After she accidentally powers up a baby robot lost off the back ofContinue reading “Little Robot, by Ben Hatke”