Staff picks for March
We hope you enjoy our staff picks, which are our most recent favorite multimedia resources on TeachingBooks. Do you have a recent favorite resource or a resource you love to use again and again? Post a comment to let other…
Putting some mystery back into history
A few weeks ago I spoke with author M.T. Anderson to create an original Book Reading and an Author Name Pronunciation. While speaking with M.T., I realized something simple yet powerful—writers are inventors! Authors are idea people, and because of…
Guest Blogger: Kimberly Willis Holt
When I was a child I resented the stories I read about the ugly mean older sisters. Why did the youngest have to be the kind beautiful one? And why did the eldest always seem to possess the worst flaws? I remember thinking, if I were a writer, I'd never bow down to that storytelling tradition. I'd write a story about the gorgeous gentle-spirited oldest daughter with the two dreadful younger sisters. If you haven't already figured it out, I'm a first born.Writing crazy sentences
I recently spoke with Ingrid Law to record her reading from her fantastically creative book, Savvy. When recording a Book Reading, I ask authors to share a little extra special information about how they came to write the book…
Colorful folktales
When I was a kid, my dad was involved in a project to help retain and transmit Anansi the Spider stories of Liberia, where my parents had served in the Peace Corps. I remember him having a pile of type-written…
Sample and savor
Every year around this time my grandfather would give my grandmother a box of chocolates. I quickly learned that not every chocolate in the sampler box thrilled me. One year, my sister taught me the trick of picking out a…