Nancy Tandon on Teaching and Writing
Nancy Tandon talks about the power of storytelling in a classroom and how stories come from everywhere, especially when you're a kid!
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Movie: Where the Crawdads Sing with Giveaway
Find out about the new movie of Where the Crawdads Sing and enter a giveaway for a signed copy of the book!
Edward Hemingway on Pigeon & Cat
The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour is your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators and their brand-new titles. In this post, author and illustrator Edward Hemingway talks about his new picture book Pigeon & Cat.
Guest Blogger: Dori Hillestad Butler
"Even though my plan was to be a child psychologist by day and a writer by night, it never occurred to me to write a story for kids. Not until I heard yours."
Contests & Giveaways | July 2022
Each month we feature free and fun book contests and giveaways. We hope you will enjoy the following opportunities as well as the author and book resources available via TeachingBooks.
Enchanting Resources for Fairy Tales and Folklore
With thousands of titles in our fairy tale and folklore collection, TeachingBooks offers bountiful and bewitching resources to support your teaching.
Guest Blogger: Andrea Wang
"Food is a link to our heritage, a bridge to other cultures, a cornerstone of community. There are so many memories and emotions associated with food and the sharing of it. In every food, there is a story."
Guest Blogger: Rose Brock
"As an educator, Hope Wins is the book I wish had existed over the years to give to the young people in my life that were struggling. It tells them, "You can do this. You are strong. You are capable. You are enough. You can hang your heart on hope.”"
Contests & Giveaways | June 2022
Each month we feature free and fun book contests and giveaways. We hope you will enjoy the following opportunities as well as the author and book resources available via TeachingBooks.
Linda Williams Jackson on The Lucky Ones
The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour is your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators and their brand-new titles. In this post, award-winning author Linda Williams Jackson talks about her new novel The Lucky Ones.
Karen Jameson on Time to Shine: Celebrating the World’s Iridescent Animals
The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour is your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators and their brand-new titles. In this post, author Karen Jameson talks about her new nonfiction picture book Time to Shine: Celebrating the World's Iridescent Animals, illustrated by Dave Murray.
Enrich Summer Reading with Book Connections
Summer reading programs offer readers ways to explore thematic lists, complete fun activities, and discover new books. This month, we’re focusing on ways that public librarians, parents, and readers can use Book Connections, TeachingBooks’ sister site, to connect more deeply with summer reading.
Rebecca Balcárcel on Shine On, Luz Véliz!
The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour is your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators and their brand-new titles. In this post, award-winning author Rebecca Balcárcel talks about her new novel Shine On, Luz Véliz!.
Christine McDonnell on Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women
The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour is your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators and their brand-new titles. In this post, author Christine McDonnell talks about her new picture-book biography Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie's Place, the Nation's First Shelter for Women, illustrated by Victoria Tentler-Krylov.
Guest Blogger: Rebecca Evans
I wrote the story not only to help myself discover and understand a different culture, but also to try to share that culture with others.
Jonathan Case on Little Monarchs
The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour is your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators and their brand-new titles. In this post, artist and author Jonathan Case talks about his new graphic novel Little Monarchs.
Glenn Erick Miller on Teaching and Writing
Glenn Erick Miller talks about how teaching young adults to discover their voice allows them to find connectedness in the world around them.
Frances O’Roark Dowell on Hazard
The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour is your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators and their brand-new titles. In this post, author Frances O'Roark Dowell talks about her new novel Hazard.
John Schu and Veronica Miller Jamison on This Is a School
The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour is your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators and their brand-new titles. In this post, John Schu and Veronica Miller Jamison talk about their picture book This Is a School.
Guest Blogger: Steenz
Cartoonist Steenz shares how they creates their Heart of the City strips and what goes into creating their new book, Heart Takes the Stage.
Contests & Giveaways | May 2022
Each month we feature free and fun book contests and giveaways. We hope you will enjoy the following opportunities as well as the author and book resources available via TeachingBooks.
Laurel Snyder on Endlessly Ever After
The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour is your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators and their brand-new titles. In this post, award-winning author Laurel Snyder talks about her new picture book Endlessly Ever After: Pick YOUR Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings, illustrated by Dan Santat.
Frank Morelli on Teaching and Writing
Frank Morelli talks about how teaching in a "post truth" world inspired him to write about evaluating information to solve a mystery.
Adrea Theodore and Erin K. Robinson on A History of Me
The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour is your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators and their brand-new titles. In this post, Adrea Theodore and Erin K. Robinson talk about their picture book A History of Me.
