Celebrate Picture Book Month!

November is Picture Book Month, and we're so excited to share all the rich resources we have to support you and your readers as you celebrate these amazing and versatile creations. Browse our Picture Book Collection with over 19,000 titles and try narrowing by filters like Grade Level. You can explore fabulous picture book titles for grades 7-12 and find inspiration to use picture books with high schoolers!

We've also put together a whole collection of Teaching Ideas for Picture Book Month for you to dive into with your readers. Picture books are wonderful to use to learn complex ideas, to pair with other related texts, or just to read for fun. Let us know how you are using picture books this month!

As always, please reach out if we can do anything to help.

Nick Glass
Founder & Head
TeachingBooks and Book Connections
nick@TeachingBooks.net

Meet-the-Illustrators Recording: The Me I Choose to Be with Kahran Bethencourt and Regis Bethencourt

To celebrate Picture Book Month, in this Meet-the-Illustrators recording, discover how Kahran and Regis Bethencourt used photography as their medium to help children feel empowered and dream big in the Coretta Scott King 2022 award winner The Me I Choose to Be (Little, Brown, 2021).

Behind the Books: "Some Books Want to Be Written"

Newbery winner Laura Amy Schlitz's feelings about Ancient Greece are...complicated. Read her reflections on the long journey from an idea for a philosophy picture book to her latest middle grade novel, Amber & Clay (Candlewick, 2021).

Suma Subramaniam and Sandhya Prabhat on Namaste is a Greeting

Author Suma Subramaniam and illustrator Sandhya Prabhat share what inspired their collaboration for Namaste is a Greeting (Candlewick, 2022)—their new picture book that celebrates a universal theme. Visit the tour to hear the recording and learn more about using the book in the classroom.

Glenn Erick Miller on Teaching and Writing

In this For Teachers, By Teachers post, author Glenn Erick Miller shares his experiences teaching young adults to connect to the world around them through exploratory writing prompts. Enjoy this post and discover the creative writing activity for using his debut novel Camper Girl (Regal House, 2020) in the classroom.

Featured Booklist: Phoenix Award, 1986-2022

Since 1986, the Phoenix Award has recognized the hidden gems that missed winning an award when originally published. Here you will find titles of high literary merit that may not have gotten our attention the first time around, but are still worthy of recognition and high praise.

Watch Amy Sarig King Compete in the Author Fan Face-off

This month's Face-off features mega-fan E Train and Amy Sarig King answering questions about Attack of the Black Rectangles (Scholastic, 2022), a timely story about book censorship and fighting for what you believe in.

Practice Reading Strategies with TeachingBooks: Part 2

The resources on TeachingBooks allow you flexibility and creativity as you teach reading comprehension strategies. In Part Two of this two-part series, discover how your readers can use TeachingBooks to practice visualization, summary, and building vocabulary.

Engage Readers with Graphic Novels & TeachingBooks Resources

Bring TeachingBooks resources to the foreground of your graphic novel lessons. Explore the genre with book trailers, excerpts, and insights from authors and illustrators. Highlight award-winning graphic novels while illuminating the artistic process.

Contests & Giveaways

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

• Luminous by Julia Kuo (Greystone, 2022)
• New Kids & Underdogs by Margaret Finnegan (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
• Torch by Lyn Miller-Lachmann (Lerner, 2022)
• Mr. McCloskey's Marvelous Mallards by Emma Bland Smith & Becca Stadtlander (Astra, 2022)
• And More!

See the November Contests & Giveaways on our blog.