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The Smells of Autumn . . . How Do You Write About That?
By: shutta on: Oct 5,2009 In: Poetry, Random Thoughts, The Writing LifeIt’s the time of year when I feel a bit like Leo Lionni’s grasshopper. Fall has well and truly come upon us in Michigan. The soy fields are dry and golden, the Virginia creeper wound round our trees is scarlet and we’ve had our first frost. Yesterday I heard sand hill cranes and assumed I’d [...]
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- Tags: authors, autumn, children's writers, five senses, Michigan, poetry writing, Shutta Crum, writing about the senses
The Imaginative Life of Children
By: shutta on: Aug 28,2009 In: Other Good Stuff!, Random Thoughts, The Writing LifeI just finished posting a blog entry for BIG UNIVERSE, about the imaginative play of my grandchildren titled: Coffee Shop Theater. If you are interested in peeking at a bit of the imaginative life of children take a trip to Big U.
In the meantime, enjoy the children in your life and these final days [...]
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- Tags: children's imaginations, grandchildren, imaginative play
Welcome . . .
Shutta Crum writes books for children and poetry for adults. She is also a storyteller, a lecturer and a librarian. In addition to her current eleven books she has three forthcoming books. Several of her articles about teaching and writing have appeared in professional journals. In 2005, she was honored by being one of eight authors invited to the White House for the Easter Egg Roll. In 2010 she was invited to tour Department of Defense American military base schools across Japan.
**Forthcoming!** Look for my new book, MINE! to make an appearance in June 2011. It is illustrated by the talented Patrice Barton and published by Knopf. 
Patrice Barton's website.
MINE! Book Trailer. Watch it here!
MINE! Book Trailer. Watch it here!
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