Empowering Students: Their Choice, Their Voice*
Often the way to engage students is to empower them with opportunity and choice. TeachingBooks.net content supports giving readers voice.
Guest Blogger: Hervé Tullet
My work often asks, “What is a book?” First came the interactive Press Here, which was radical in its simplicity. For Mix It Up!, I painted with my bare hands—a “no-illustration” illustration. Let’s Play! (2016; all Chronicle) is the return to expressing something with drawing, composition, proportion, and feelings.Read-y to bike?
Here at TeachingBooks I’m encouraging my colleagues to ride their bicycles to the office. Madison, Wisconsin is such a lovely city this time of year, why not enjoy it on bike?
With that in mind, I’ve been exploring multimedia resources…
Guest Bloggers: Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
The whole thing started in 2008, when I was working as Congressman John Lewis’s press secretary during his primary campaign.Meet the Caldecott Winners
As we celebrate 75 years of the Caldecott Medal (1938-2013), this article offers a compilation of TeachingBooks.net original interviews with a few Caldecott Medalists. Hundreds of interviews, lesson plans, and recordings of Caldecott-recipients pronouncing their names are freely available as…
Nick’s Picks: Losses and Legacies
Last spring the children’s book community lost several beloved authors and illustrators, including the hugely talented Leo Dillon, Jean Craighead George, Ellen Levine, and Maurice Sendak. In honor of their memory and their many accomplishments, we offer video and audio…