Contests & Giveaways | February 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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Support Writing Skills: Character Development
Graphic novels offer engaging, complex characters whose growth is essential to the narrative. Through illustration, voice, and detail, graphic novel creators synthesize art and character to construct memorable protagonists. With the resources below, students can learn about the authorial choices that enrich character development and consider how the visual form echoes the written.
Tracey Baptiste on African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History
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, Tracey Baptiste talks about new title African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History.
Margarita Engle on Light for All
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 Margarita Engle talks about her new picture book Light for All.
Guest Blogger: Kate Hannigan
"Throughout the three books, I have my characters meet these key real-life figures and learn from them. So that as the superheroes demonstrate the best ways to punch out supervillains, the historical figures also show them real-life skills. I want to plant the seed with young readers that the things we're good at—math, puzzles, pattern recognition, languages, even flying—might actually become our own superpowers."
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.
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.
