My daily journal entries during this time were bitter, almost to a point of sounding vengeful, which I am absolutely not. Why? Our fellow citizens too easily became an unruly and treasonous mob, and I became angry that this could even happen in the America I grew up in.

Capitol Building, I was ready to delete both WritingFix and Always Write and disappear, living quietly in a well-planned retirement. After watching the awful events unfold on January 6, 2021, in the U.S.

I stopped wanting to rebuild this website recently. Our Goal for Revising WritingFix: I’m going to be honest. Our surveys and your responses from this new process to rebuild for WritingFix have helped us decide which lessons were used by teachers regularly and which were used rarely. To do so will require a bit of patience on your parts, because we have a lot of lessons and resources to format. We officially ran out of funding in October of 2020, but Dena and I believe we have found a way to keep the popular website we started back in 1999 online. You can see some of his best-loved characters immortalized as statues in Boston's Public Garden and Lentil Park in Hamilton, Ohio.Welcome, K-12 Writing Teachers: You’ve found WritingFix’s new home.

He was declared a Living Legend by the Library of Congress in 2000. The first ever two-time Caldecott Medal winner, for Make Way for Ducklings and Time of Wonder, McCloskey was also awarded Caldecott Honors for Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, and Journey Cake, Ho! by Ruth Sawyer. He grew up in Hamilton, Ohio, and spent time in Boston, New York, and ultimately Maine, where he and his wife raised their two daughters. Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) wrote and illustrated some of the most honored and enduring children's books ever published.

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