Antoinette Portis on A New Green Day
Welcome to TeachingBooks' Virtual Book Tour! During this time when social distancing prevents us from gathering together, we are offering this tour to help readers build personal connections with authors and their new books. Young readers will also find an at-home activity just for them. In this inaugural post, hear Antoinette Portis introduce A New Green Day !



Tackling what frightens us and discovering things are not as scary as they seemed is one thing; finding out that our worst-case scenario is indeed at hand is another. That is when courage asks something deeper of us.
Birdsong is a celebration of relationships, an intergenerational friendship between two neighbors, an older artist named Agnes, and a young girl, Katherena, told from the child’s point of view. Agnes sees Katherena as an equal, and I hope readers will be able to find themselves in this book. 
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Science is magic and magic is science is an idea I play with in Weird Little Robots. [...] I pretty much live my life thinking miracles and magic are around every corner, and I’d love it if kids were inspired to think the same way after reading my book.
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