Beyond Boundaries · Essays and Tidbits From Nancy Bo Flood

Selecting books

Read at Home: a New School Year

August 16, 2022

Approximately 450 subscriptions of Highlights’ High Five children’s “learning and literacy” magazine will begin arriving at schools on a variety of tribal nations.

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nighttime

Strange is our situation here on earth

June 14, 2022

Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why …

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forget-me-nots

Violence in Our Country

June 7, 2022

“Freedom and justice for all ….”  Unless you are murdered at school.

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National Native American Veterans Memorial

Memorial Day 2022

May 26, 2022

This weekend the sacrifices made by our soldiers and veterans are especially real and poignant as we realize the terror and destruction of war happening in Ukraine.

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boy reading Highlights

Read at Home

May 19, 2022

This weekend will celebrate a bookmobile becoming a reality. Our early literacy nonprofit, Read at Home, has worked with Chinle Planting Hope, to get this bookmobile on the road.

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Find the fire in your writing!

May 12, 2022

I hope you’ll join me, in person or via livestream, for Creative Writing I and II, offered through Colorado Mountain College.

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Walking Grandma Home

Walking Grandma Home

May 10, 2022

Looking forward to Walking Grandma Home being available to children and families, January 10, 2023, from Zonderkidz.

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poetry

A month … a year of poetry

May 5, 2022

Thank you for sharing this month of poetry. Poetry is quiet. Poetry roars. May poetry be part of many of your days this year.

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A Poem for Mothers

May 3, 2022

Sharing a poem by Julia Kasdorf

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Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen

April 30, 2022

Can you tell us how your recent book When Nana Dances came to be? My co-author on this book, Maddison Stemple-Piatt, is my granddaughter. She was ten years old, in ballet…

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We Belong

We Belong, a Book Recommendation

April 26, 2022

In We Belong, with bright digital illustrations and a bouncy, engaging rhythm, Laura Purdie Salas introduces the reader to the many ways we are different as well as the many ways we all belong.

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Nikki Grimes

Nikki Grimes

April 23, 2022

When I asked Nikki to take part in my National Poetry Month celebration, I knew the possibilities of books to discuss were many. Nikki writes in poetry and sometimes prose, from picture books to middle grade novels to young adult books.

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