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Liz Macklin — Writer & Illustrator

watercolors, books and gardens — I write and illustrate stories for children.

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Activities for Kids

Everyone Can Make a Book

Dream and Design!

Painting the Rainforest

Winter Birds

Watercolor Turnips

Painting Creatures of the Reef

Swirling Colors, Decorating Papers

Outdoors at Last!

Ogees in Pink and Blue

Earth Day

Sprouts

Drawing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

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At the American Library Association conference, browsing the new books for children with Terry Catasus Jennings. She greeted readers and signed her picture book, The Little House of Hope — the story of a family whose welcoming spirit fills a tiny home with marvelous energy and new friends. @terry.c.jennings #kidlitauthors #readtokids
How did I spend my time this spring? With kids -- exploring local habitats and learning more about insects, birds, reptiles and amphibians! Volunteers from the Arlington Regional Master Naturalists and staff from Arlington's nature centers led hikes along local trails. With kids in the after school nature club, I learned the call of the chickadee and spotted sparrows nesting high in a wall. We searched stream beds for the hiding places of ants and worms, and we discovered how some insects use camouflage and mimicry as protection against predators.
I beat the squirrels to these. Straight from the backyard…
Even without snow, winter possesses its own beauty — a magic tracery. Would this be a way to climb toward heaven, as Robert Frost described in Birches?

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