Even if you can't take the entire summer off, try to give yourself some time. Quit early on Fridays or use some annual leave and just stay at home. Readers can read, and writers can write. In case you do make time to read for yourself or with a child or on the off chance others of you may have writer's block, I have put together summer reading lists for all ages of children. Some of these books may jump across reading groups and be appropriate for more than one level.
Lists are, after all, just recommendations.
Books should be selected for the individual child. This issue has stories for all ages. Three new authors, Cynthia Staples, Shawn P. Madison, and Lee Kantor, have given us these stories. Ms. Staples is an environmentalist who persuades with her stories, Mr. Madison is an experienced writer but new to the Children's Page, and Mr. Kantor is making the move from Ad copy to fiction as other writers before him have done. All three stories made me long for summer.