Mouse tales
A new movie released this month is based on Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery-winning book The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread.
Explore Kate DiCamillo’s Original Author Program and…
See the real Keeping Quilt…
When I was in elementary school, my mom (a K-12 art teacher) came home from a conference with new picture books for my sister and me. At the conference my mom met Patricia Polacco and received signed copies of The …
Celebrate all year round
Chief Joseph Medicine Crow, aka High Bird, is an amazing man. His book, Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond, shares the stories of his life traversing two cultures: that of his traditional Crow grandparents,…
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 …
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…
2nd Children’s Poet Laureate: a walking rhyming dictionary
Congratulations to Mary Ann Hoberman who has recently been named the 2nd Children’s Poet Laureate by The Poetry Foundation.
If you try an author search for Mary Ann Hoberman, you’ll find many resources on TeachingBooks.net including book guides, her author…