Fresh from Susan's Garden If you enjoyed the floral photography on our Spring Colors pages, you'll love a series of six extraordinary coffee mugs Jerry designed using some of the most beautiful images. These cheery mugs will make you smile.

Meet Mr. Squared Pine Now and then we receive envelopes from teachers bursting with terrific stories submitted to our Young Writers Workshop. Reading them all is great fun. Picking one or two to publish is a terrible task. If we could, we would publish every one. Students and their teacher in from Pierre, South Dakota, sent a collection in March. We picked a story by Eden W. and published it in April. We wanted to publish them all. In May, we received an envelope full of Story Starters from a second grade class in Eugene, Oregon. Since the beginning of the school year, they practiced skills such as brainstorming, peer editing, paragraph structure and the use of dialogue. They used all those skills preparing a wonderful group of stories based on our Story Starters. We chose one from Zoe P. to publish in June. A few weeks ago another big envelope arrived, this time from Ilford, Essex, U.K. This teacher works with a wider age range of students. She invited the children to read Frogwart and the Tooth Fairies and Frogwart and the Easter Eggs. They studied the characters and discussed their personalities and behaviors and the settings I had illustrated. Then they set out to write and illustrate their own stories about Frogwart and Tippity Witchet. We selected stories by Sreram R. and Garthika S. to publish in August. Mr. Squared Pine is one of Garthika's wonderful characters.

Inspiration Time to draw or paint a picture of flowers for Mom for Mother's Day or any other occasion. Tippity Witchet calls our attention to the shapes and colors of Spring flowers in this new module for young artists and nature lovers: Spring Colors.