Pam’s Perspectives

Look What We Made

By PJF | Published: March 31, 2012
One of the highlights of attending a conference for Waldorf teachers is the participating in the artistic/practical workshops. Usually there are so many offerings that it’s difficult to choose. This year was no exception at the 2012 Western Waldorf Educators’ Conference, ” A New Inspiration for Education,” held at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, [Read more...]
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Spring Book Launch in California

By PJF | Published: March 29, 2012
Our new book was launched at a teachers’ conference at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, CA. The bookstore generously provided a place for Pam to show Make Way for Reading and greet friends and colleagues. Before the conference, Karen and Pam enjoyed a celebratory brunch in Palo Alto. It was a glorious spring 3 [Read more...]
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What Others are Saying—

By PJF | Published: March 27, 2012
“…Books can have a powerful effect on the changing consciousness of the child, and serve as instruments initiating him or her into successive stages of life.…With this guide in hand, parents and teachers are given gentle and sensible advice on finding the best book for the right age. May this book of books stand as [Read more...]
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Scholarship Recipient Goes to SF

By PJF | Published: March 22, 2012
I was fortunate to be one of ten persons selected to receive a scholarship from Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) to attend “Publishing University” or “Pub-U” from IBPA March 9 and 10 in San Francisco. I represented Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE). It was a day and a half of non-stop seminars on book [Read more...]
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Launching the Book

By PJF | Published: February 5, 2012
Pam will be in northern California from February 20 – March 12 celebrating the launching of  Make Way for Reading with co-editor, Karen Latimer and attending two teachers’ conferences in northern California. Contact us for details of place and time—let us know if you’d like us to visit. Here’s a view of the back cover. It even has a [Read more...]
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Celebrating the Chinese New Year

By PJF | Published: January 23, 2012
I recently wrote that I had received newly-published translated editions of “Beyond the Rainbow Bridge” from a publisher in Beijing and in Taiwan. Over the weekend, they both have independently sent me New Year’s greetings. Each wrote that in the Chinese calendar, 2012 is the “Year of the Dragon” and is a most felicitous sign [Read more...]
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‘Rainbow Bridge’ Foreign Translations

By PJF | Published: December 26, 2011
We have just received copies of new translations of Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Nurturing your children from birth to seven— Simplified Chinese (a Beijing publisher) and in Complex Chinese (a Taiwan publisher). In 2012, there will be a Turkish edition. The Beijing publisher has also invited Barbara Patterson to Beijing to lead some early childhood workshops. [Read more...]
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A Christmas Poem of 1888

By PJF | Published: December 25, 2011
John Greenleaf Whittier, the great 19th-century poet, lived here in Amesbury for most of his life and found inspiration for many of his poems in our local environs. In this poem, “The Christmas of 1888,” Whittier describes the sunrise on a balmy Christmas day in Amesbury more than 120 years ago. It was published in our local [Read more...]
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HOLIDAY GREETINGS

By PJF | Published: December 22, 2011
Wishing all of our customers and friends a joyous holiday season—Advent, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Day. A friend sent this quotation about Christmas which I’ll pass on: What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It  is a fervent wish that every cup may [Read more...]
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Spring Activities

By PJF | Published: May 3, 2011
Our long snow and icy winter is over and spring has finally come to New England. March and April can seem so long here along the NH/Massachusetts border, especially when the leaves on the trees don’t open up until the first week in May. A New England spring can last several weeks or sometimes only [Read more...]
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