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Meet the spider and the fly for Halloween
The TeachingBooks Author of the Week this week is Tony DiTerlizzi.
With Halloween approaching, I thought it might be fun to learn more about the inspiration, paper dolls, and thought process behind his Caldecott honor book, The Spider and the …
Meet Christopher Paolini
Christopher Paolini, the author of Eragon and Brisingr, is only a few clicks of your mouse away… so, turn on your speakers or get your headphones ready.
Listen to the readings we recently created with Christopher to hear the…
Purposeful pigs!
This week’s Author of the Week is the amazing illustrator Arthur Geisert.
He creates his complex illustrations with copper plate etching. Thus, the prints come out as mirror images of the etchings.
Fun things to look for include:
1) His…
Creating an online reading with Sarah Dessen
Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking to Sarah Dessen to record her introducing and reading from her newest novel,Lock and Key. This original book reading is now live on TeachingBooks.net for you to enjoy.
If you listen…
Have you heard of Beverly Bunn?
If you’re familiar with Beezus, Ramona, Ralph S. Mouse, or Mr. Henshaw, then you also know Beverly Bunn.
As you may have guessed, Beverly Bunn is Beverly Cleary!
I learned this when I recently called Beverly Cleary to record her…