Cumin and undeclared peanut

Amelia isn’t allergic to peanuts anymore. Otherwise I would be freaking out over this massive recall of products that may have peanut-containing cumin. Being able to read labels and trust

A new mystery series for girls

A Mighty Girl gave a rave to this new mystery series, The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Book one, just out, is The Case of the Missing Moonstone, calling it a “tween

My Year of Epic Rock makes Mighty Girl’s Top 2014 list

So thrilled that MY YEAR OF EPIC ROCK made the top 2014 girl-empowering books for children and teens list at A Mighty Girl. This is a fab list of 175

Going out to eat with food allergies

As I’ve said before, eating out is the biggest challenge when you have food allergies. You don’t know the chef or server, or know whether or not to trust them

How Much Do You Oversee A Child’s Book Choices?

Reprinted from my blog post at From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle Grade Authors   My daughter is in fourth grade, and by the grace of the book gods, she

Summer can’t come soon enough

Yes, it’s January, but I’m already looking forward to summer. That’s when Kate DiCamillo takes on her job as the Collaborative Summer Library Program’s National Summer Reading Champion. In that

Bullying and food allergies

Quite a bit has been written already about bullying and food allergies. It’s (sadly) quite common. But this interesting article in U.S. News points out the added dimension of bullying

Food allergy treatment update

Top allergy doc Hugh Sampson, M.D. who is the Director at the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, runs down a list of the latest

Yes!

It’s not surprising at all that a study shows that moms who have kids with food allergies not only seek advice on what to feed their children, but that they

Sad news for four food allergy families

Four young adults have died recently from ingesting food they were allergic to. Such sad news for their families.