Two-Minute Takeaways

TeachingBooks is focused on offering many opportunities to personalize and deepen the reading of children's and young adult books. Our new collection of Two-Minute Takeaways are short videos that highlight ways to use our service to spark ideas, springboard thinking, and support literacy instruction. Topics include:

• Complete Book Readings
• Journaling Inspiration
• Make Your Library Talk
• Reader's Theater
• Standards Connections
• Summer Reading 2021
• Touchless Book Choosing
• and many more.

Honor your time. Stay informed. And let these Two-Minute Takeaways direct your dive into the pedagogical and fun depths of TeachingBooks.

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Nick Glass
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TeachingBooks and Book Connections
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Traci Chee on We Are Not Free

In a timely reminder of the history of anti-Asian racism in the United States, Traci Chee's novel We Are Not Free (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) follows 14 Japanese American teenagers interned in an incarceration camp during World War II. Visit the TeachingBooks book tour to learn more about Chee's personal connection to this topic and why she wants readers to know this history.

Meet-the-Author Recording: Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park

Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park explains the danger of a single story in her Meet-the-Author Recording for Prairie Lotus (Clarion, 2020). Learn how this novel tells another side of the pioneer story by centering a character who is part Asian.

Featured Booklist: Featured Booklist: Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry

In honor of National Poetry Month, check out the winners of the Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry, the best poetry books of the year selected by the Children's Book Committee of the Bank Street College of Education. Celebrate the many ways poetic forms can be used to tell compelling stories.

Meet-the-Author Recording: Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship by Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes

In this recording, the authors discuss how they created their Schneider-winning book, Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship (Candlewick, 2018). They share with children how they were injured in the Boston Marathon bombing, and how their service dog, Rescue, changed their lives with teamwork, practice, and companionship.

Desmond Hall on Teaching and Writing

In our newest For Teachers, By Teachers post, author Desmond Hall discusses how centering the teenage social issues of depression, colorism, police brutality, and black masculinity in his novel, Your Corner Dark (Atheneum, 2021), was a result of his desire to be relevant to today's readers.

Behind the Books: "On Adventure"

G.D. Falksen, author of The Secret Life of Kitty Granger (Lerner, 2021), describes the wide appeal and value of adventure stories — and why adventures should be for everyone.

Listen In with Matthew Winner & The Children's Book Podcast

The Tulsa Race Massacre was a horrific event that devastated one of the wealthiest African American communities in the nation in 1921. Listen to author Carole Boston Weatherford talk about her book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre (Carolrhoda, 2021), and why Black advancement is seen as the single greatest threat to White Supremacy.

Storytime Activities from TeachingBooks

Explore resources that keep young book lovers connected to stories. Enrich the storytime experience with engaging and easy-to-find resources that make planning effortless.

• Use sharing tools to promote storytime
• Infuse resources into circle time
• Extend the fun with connected activities

Contests & Giveaways

Check out our April Contests & Giveaways, accompanied by multimedia resources!

• Already a Butterfly by Julia Alvarez and Raúl Colón (Henry Holt, 2021)
• Finish Strong by Dave McGillivray (Nomad Press, 2021)
• Wood, Wire, Wings by Kristen W. Larson and Tracy Subisak (Boyds Mills & Kane, 2021)
• and more!

See the April Contests & Giveaways on our blog.

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