I am interested in purchasing Portals to Literature: Animal Farm & Hatchet. However, the price of shipping is too high for me to go through with the purchase. Is it possible to combine the two books in one shipment and ship them using the USPS media mail rate? You may contact me privately at leaird@yahoo.com. Thanks for your time.

Thank you, Pegi, for creating The Pinballs activities. My students and I will certainly enjoy them. I can actually use the things you created and extend them into my existing games. You are the best!

Pegi, thanks for your response. My email address is: buchs5@juno.com. I'd be interested in your Maniac Magee bookmarks. Thanks. Dan

I purchased the bookmarks for Hatchet. They look like they will be good for my students. You may want to revise the "theme" section on the final 4 bookmarks so they are like the first. (c)

Pegi, Before I buy Summer of the Monkeys, the extra stuff that's listed for the novel, is it duplicated in the Themeworks or the Fun With Great Works? I just didn't want to buy duplicates of activities. Please advise. Lesia

Hi! I'm looking at your novel products (Bridge to Terabithia and Summer of the Monkeys) and know I will enjoy using them in my 7th grade classroom. In the future would you consider the book by Betsy Byars, The Pinballs? Thanks for your hard work! Your products are fabulous! Lesia English

Thanks for answering. That does help me. I am going through the book slowly with 8th graders, so I wanted to make certain that I could use the game repeatedly.

Thank you so much for responding. Here is my e-mail address: westjulia@hotmail.com. I was hoping to print it out this weekend.

I purchased this and did not get this. Instead, I was given bookmarks. Can you please look into this? Fun with Great Works is a series of reproducible booklets based on classroom novels and nonfiction books. Each edition contains up to 40 pages of word puzzles! All answers are related to the book! 21 EDITIONS IN ALL! The activities are clever and unique, not your typical word puzzles.

I have a question about this before purchasing. I want to know how many quotes are included in the game and if the quotes/questions are linked to certain sections which would enable me to play it several times as we go through the novel. The Mark Twain quote in the sample document clearly matches with Scout's experience during her first few years of school. Do the other quotes then cover the other themes as they are developed? Thanks!!

I just purchased and downloaded the Fun with Greatworks: The Sign of the Beaver. Instead of games, it was bookmarks. Could you double check to see if that is correct. Thank you so much...I can't wait to use Fun with Great Works. Julia

I just purchased and downloaded Word Games for Number the Stars. It automatically downloaded to Wordpad, and I didn't get page numbers. Was I supposed to get crosswords for "The Novel" through "World War II Trivia"?I got the questions, but no puzzles in which to put them. I also did not get the clues for several of the criss cross puzzles, nor the answer key. Can you help? I even tried downloading 2x to make sure my download didn't mess up. This looks like great fun to use with our novel study!

Hi, Herb, You had contacted me about doing some writing. My ed. publ. jobs are slowing way down as always at this time of year. I would be available for writing assignments starting on Nov. 6. Pegi Bevins

Yes, I've been writing and editing products for language arts classrooms on a freelance basis since 2000. Currently, I'm working on a 5-month project for McDougal Littell.

do you still do any freelance writing?