Contests & Giveaways | January 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.
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Elisa Sabatinelli and Iacopo Bruno on The Secret of the Magic Pearl
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, Elisa Sabatinelli and Iacopo Bruno
speak about their new title The Secret of the Magic Pearl.
Jeanne Walker Harvey on Teaching and Writing
Author Jeanne Walker Harvey talks about creating picture books with her 7th graders and how that inspired her own writing journey.
Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong on Things We Do
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, Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell talks about their new poetry anthology for young people Things We Do.
Guest Blogger: Carole Boston Weatherford
"That, in a nutshell, is why I choose the biographical subjects that I do: to show young readers that they can overcome adversity and soar."
e.E. Charlton-Trujillo on Fat Angie: Homecoming
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 e.E. Charlton-Trujillo talks about their new novel Fat Angie: Homecoming.
Mae Respicio on Teaching and Writing
Author Mae Respicio talks about journals and how she and her students use them to fuel their writing.
Guest Blogger: Sally Morgan
"We create the future our children and grandchildren will live in. The choices we make ripple into the future."
Marcella Pixley on Teaching and Writing
Author Marcella Pixley talks about her classroom Writers' Guild and how it, and her students, have inspired her own writing.
Wade Hudson on Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
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 Wade Hudson talks about his new memoir Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South.
Gayle Forman on Frankie & Bug
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 Gayle Forman talks about her new novel Frankie & Bug.
G. Neri on Polo Cowboy
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 G. Neri talks about his new novel Polo Cowboy, illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson.
Guest Blogger: Ferren Gipson
"I hope that readers will be able to see how cultures and artists from all around the world have interacted with each other as the world became more connected over time."
Contests & Giveaways | November 2021
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.
Kao Kalia Yang on Teaching and Writing
Author Kao Kalia Yang talks about how teaching is something she has always done and that profoundly impacts her life.
Giorgio Volpe on Before We Sleep
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 Giorgio Volpe talks about his new picture book Before We Sleep, illustrated by Paolo Proietti.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz on Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
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 Benjamin Alire Sáenz talks about his new novel Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World.
Guest Blogger: Sol Santana
"Lines in the sand have no place in an empathetic society. I want to kick over every one I see."
Aimee Lucido on Recipe for Disaster
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 Aimee Lucido talks about her new novel Recipe for Disaster.
Support Writing Skills in Sequencing and Plot Development
Graphic novels often convey complex stories in a visual way. By exploring sequencing and plot development methods in graphic novels, students can gain understanding of these writing elements across genres. Explore the examples below for ideas!
Aron Nels Steinke on Teaching and Writing
Author Aron Nels Steinke talks about how teaching inspires the events in his comic strips and graphic novels.
TeachingBooks Joins OverDrive
Exciting news! TeachingBooks has joined OverDrive, the world's leading digital reading platform for libraries and schools. With this partnership, we are so excited to build upon the TeachingBooks vision and expand opportunities that enrich and deepen everyone’s connections to children's and young adult books.
Dean Robbins on ¡Mambo Mucho Mambo!: The Dance That Crossed Color Lines
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, Dean Robbins talks about his new picture book ¡Mambo Mucho Mambo!: The Dance That Crossed Color Lines, illustrated by Eric Velasquez.
Jessica Vitalis on The Wolf’s Curse
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 Jessica Vitalis talks about her debut novel The Wolf's Curse.
