Friday Items of Interest, April 13th

The April edition of the Edge of the Forest, the online children's literature publication, is up. You'll also find a guide to Erin Hunter's "Warriors" series,  interviews with authors Grace Lin and Carrie Jones, and more, including the Kid Picks column that I wrote this month.

An early spring Field Day, a nature carnival devoted to learning with children, is happening right now at By Sun and Candlelight.

The roundup for Poetry Friday can be found at A Chair, A Fireplace and A Tea Cozy today.

At Read Roger, Horn Book editor Roger Sutton remembers Janet McDonald, who wrote Spellbound, Project Girl, and a number of other young-adult novels. McDonald, who grew up in the  Brooklyn projects, was an attorney in Paris.