Free webinar with Jan Reynolds, live from Bali!

October 5, 2011 – 3:35 pm

Our very own author/adventurer/world record-breaker Jan Reynolds will be hosting a live, free webinar this Friday from Bali, the site of her award-winning book, Cycle of Rice, Cycle of Life: A Story of Sustainable Farming. Tune in here at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on October 7 to explore the cycle of sustainable rice farming [...]

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We Shall Overcome

June 1, 2011 – 4:10 pm

Over the weekend I listened to a band called Flame perform at a fundraiser for my youngest son’s school. The school offers a socialization program for special needs kids, which my son, who is seven years old and autistic, goes to on weekends. What was unique about the ten members of the band is they all have some form of developmental and/or physical disability.

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Being There Without Being There

March 29, 2011 – 12:27 pm

I did my first Skype visit last week. It was with the students of a publishing course being taught by Simmons College at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, that needed a guest speaker. My visit was scheduled for Friday, which is the dress down day at the office, so I wore a dress shirt with jeans and sneakers and donned the spare tie I keep in the office. I looked presentable from the waist up.

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Defending the Book in the Classroom

November 2, 2010 – 11:16 am

Recently, I gave a presentation to a college class of future teachers. Their professor asked me: “What advice would you give a teacher who has introduced to her or his class a controversial book that has been challenged by a parent?” I am not sure the answer I gave at the time was a good one, but I have pondered the question some more and would like to offer a few suggestions.

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Video Thursday: Everyone’s Reading Yummy

October 21, 2010 – 11:58 am

We know we’ve done something right when readers share their excitement for our books with the entire Internet. Amy Cheney, librarian at Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center, is one of those excited readers: she made a video with other staff at the ACJJC, all explaining why they love Yummy and why it’s great for the [...]

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Five Ways to Green the Curriculum

October 18, 2010 – 4:22 pm

Jen Cullerton Johnson is an educator and the author of Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace, a biography of biologist, environmentalist, and activist Wangari Maathai. We asked her to blog about ways teachers can bring awareness of nature and environmentalism into the classroom; here are her five key suggestions. We hope you find [...]

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A Lunch at the Museum

October 6, 2010 – 5:15 pm

The odd and the beautiful are photos taken from the streets of New York City, our commutes, and our travels. Sometimes humorous, often times unusual, they offer a taste of life in the big city and beyond. Tu Books Editorial Director Stacy Whitman went to the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. There [...]

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A YUMMY update

September 14, 2010 – 5:00 pm

Just popping on the blog to share a little more good news: Yummy has received its fourth (yes, FOURTH!) star, from the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books: DuBurke’s gritty black-and-white artwork employs foreshortened backgrounds to bring the action right up in the reader’s face, whether it’s talking heads calmly discussing their theories on [...]

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A Tip for Surviving School Visits

September 2, 2010 – 1:38 pm

Anastasia Suen, author of Toddler Two and Baby Born, visits schools frequently. Here’s one of her tips for surviving a school appearance—based on long experience! After talking all day at a school visit, you may come home to find that you don’t have any voice left! On the days that you stay home and write, [...]

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Video Thursday: Blue Eyes and Brown Eyes

July 22, 2010 – 4:39 pm

An old but good video this week, featuring a teacher who split classes—here a group of corrections officers being trained—into brown eyes and blue eyes and used that as the basis for (temporary) discrimination: Empathy—putting yourself in someone else’s shoes—can make a huge difference in personal awareness of discrimination and racism, but as a society [...]

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