It was a challenge coming up with a title and a cover image for the fifth and final book in the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” (Abrams) series. I always planned to call this book Rowley’s Revenge, so I sketched what I thought might make a good cover.
This Friday, explore a classic in a new way …
Add multimedia resources, like this audio Book Reading of Homer’s The Odyssey, when you are exploring this classic with students.
Listen now with students to this dramatic excerpt to…
Audio performances of books, like this dramatic Book Reading of Bear Feels Scared (S&S, 2008), are a fun way to explore rhythm and rhyme with younger students.
Listen now with students and ask them to notice the rhyming words in…
Designing the cover is my final step in creating a picture book. It’s only after spending so much time in the interior of the book—realizing the characters and their world—that I can stand back and consider what one picture would best sum up the experience of the story.
Laurie Halse Anderson, the author of Speak (FSG, 1991), got in touch with us recently. Currently, Speak—a National Book Award Finalist as well as a Printz Honor Book—is being challenged.
Connecting these events to this week’s Banned Books Week, Laurie…
While browsing TeachingBooks.net for audio Book Readings featuring poetry, I came across this dramatic audio performance of two poems from Curtis Crisler’s Tough Boy Sonatas (Front Street, 2007), a collection of 38 poems reflecting the experiences of boys growing up…