The AI Toolkit for Librarians

Published by Bloomsbury – Purchase here

The AI Toolkit for Librarians offers a clear and encouraging way to make sense of today’s fast-moving world of artificial intelligence. Written for academic, public, and K–12 settings, it helps readers understand how AI fits into everyday library work while staying grounded in the values of access, equity, and learning. The book explores AI’s biggest opportunities and challenges, breaks down essential concepts in everyday language, and shows how AI can strengthen reading, writing, research, instruction, and programming.

Each chapter includes practical strategies, Quick Tips, discussion questions, and interviews with 25 respected leaders representing a variety of library settings and roles. Throughout the book, real-life examples and personal experiences help make these ideas practical and relatable. The AI storytelling chapter includes a ready-to-use AI Playground Event, a 90-minute workshop that invites learners of any age or skill level to explore AI through a fun, hands-on approach. The book concludes with the Bridge Framework for AI Readiness, a simple model that helps libraries move from experimenting with AI to adopting it in thoughtful, ethical, and sustainable ways.

The Reading Makeover

Published by Teacher Created Materials – Purchase here

Give your classroom reading routine a makeover with innovative activities that even the most reluctant readers will find engaging. This classroom-tested resource is based on current research and practical, real-life observations, the Thirteen Steps to Reading Riches will help teachers foster a lifelong love of learning in their students. The activities and strategies in this classroom resource will boost the confidence of struggling readers while increasing their reading comprehension skills.

Getting Boys to Read

Published by Twenty First Century Publishing – Purchase here

GETTING BOYS TO READ: QUICK TIPS FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS is a treasure trove of awesome advice for any adult who wants to help boy readers. The 114 Quick Tips are easy to read, fun, and practical. This book is loaded with great ideas that can be quickly implemented.

The Vanishing Coin – Multimedia eBook

I first wrote The Vanishing Coin for print & then realized the need for video so I used iBooks Author and made a multimedia based version for iPads. Through interactive videos, audio, and 3D effects, it teaches kids how to do a magic trick through a step by step approach.

Boys’ Life Magazine

My first professionally published magazine article was in this Sept, 2010 issue of Boys’ Life magazine. It described ways to get fired up about reading and was distributed to over 1.2 million readers. Read it on Google Books.