Here's a page where we can capture the many great reading recommendations that have been flying around since we first met at the retreat.  I've created a few preliminary categories to get us started and listed the titles I jotted down in my journal so far, but please add more, edit/correct the ones listed, reorganize, and create new/different/better categories.  Happy reading!

Books that have inspired our writing

Paul Gruchow's The Necessity of Empty Places (image of "blueness")

Paul Gruchow's Journal of a Prairie Year

Billy Collins's Picnic Lightning (poem "Journal")

Susan Shaughnessy's Walking on Alligators

Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones

Donald Murray's Write to Learn

Kowit, Steve.  In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet’s Portable Workshop. Gardiner, Maine:  1995.

Books that have inspired our teaching

Jon Hassler's Staggerford 

Joseph Williams -- Style

Jeff Anderson -- Mechanically Inclined (teaching grammar in context - see also Writing Fix website)

 Fry -- Book of Lists

Ruth Culham -- 6+1 Traits of Writing

Books that we've just loved reading

John Coy's Night Driving

Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses

Ann Martin's A Dog's Life

Books that help with teaching nature

Richard Louv's Last Child in th Woods

Joni Chancer & Gina Rester-Zodrow's Moon Journals

Other Reading Yummies

Wellness: The importance of reading labels and more