TeachingBooks joins OverDrive — offering more fabulous connections to books and reading

Exciting news! TeachingBooks has joined OverDrive, the world's leading digital reading platform for libraries and schools. With this partnership, we are so excited to build upon the TeachingBooks vision and expand opportunities that enrich and deepen everyone's connections to children's and young adult books.

In the future, we will develop impactful integrations with the Sora and Libby reading apps, and OverDrive's Marketplace, empowering readers with resources during the very moment they are reading a book.

In the meantime, rest assured that this acquisition will not impact the access, setup, support, or content that TeachingBooks is providing you. We are fully operating as we have in the past, so please keep using, sharing, and enjoying the TeachingBooks service throughout your community.

Keep reading to learn more on the blog post.

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

Behind the Books: "Home is Where the Habitat Is"

Lenora Todaro connects her childhood, her career, and the COVID-19 quarantines to her new picture book, Sea Lions in the Parking Lot: Animals on the Move in a Time of Pandemic (minedition, 2021). Discover her enthusiasm for habitats and wildlife in our Guest Blog Post.

Meet-the-Author Recording: Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters with Dan SaSuWeh Jones

In this recording, Dan SaSuWeh Jones shares his time gathering stories for Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories (Scholastic, 2021) and the desire to learn more about the variance and similarities in ghost stories across tribes.

Meet-the-Author Recording: Mary's Monster with Lita Judge

In this recording, Lita Judge shares how Mary Shelley's journals and letters influenced her to write Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein (Roaring Brook, 2018) in free verse with full-page illustrations to honor Shelley's story of survival.

Read for the Record with JumpStart

What happens when children and adults around the world all read the same book on the same day? It's Jumpstart's Read for the Record campaign! On October 28, 2021, the 16th annual Read for the Record event will take place, and this year's book selection is Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon, (Simon & Schuster, 2020) written by Kat Zhang and illustrated by Charlene Chua.

Visit Read for the Record's website to learn more and to participate in the event.

Caroline Adderson on Sunny Days Inside

In Sunny Days Inside (Groundwood, 2021), author Caroline Adderson gives a perspective of the recent pandemic through the eyes of children who find funny and creative ways to manage the "strange new rules." Visit the Virtual Book Tour to learn more about what sparked the idea for the book.

Ann Marie Stephens on Teaching and Writing

In this For Teachers, By Teachers post, writer and classroom teacher Ann Marie Stephens shares how her first grade students' reading and writing preferences influenced her own writing journey for CATastrophe (Boyds Mill, 2021).

Featured Booklist: Teaching Graphic Novels

Interested in using graphic novels in your classroom? Explore this list of books that TeachingBooks curated linked to robust, standards-based lesson plans and classroom activities. Explore titles for teaching computer coding, U.S. civics, marine ecology, Greek mythology, the refugee crisis, and much more.

Watch Shannon Hale Compete in the Author Fan Face-off

Author Steve Sheinkin and school librarian Stacey Rattner have begun posting a second season of their popular middle grade book game show, Author Fan Face-off. The idea is simple: one great author and one huge fan go head-to-head on 10 trivia questions from one of the author's best-loved books. This month's Face-off features superfan Kiki taking on Shannon Hale in a showdown based on the graphic novel Real Friends (First Second/Macmillan, 2017).

Analyze Detail in Graphic Novels

Graphic novels contain a variety of details which, when reflected upon, aid in the development of visual literacy. Details like sound effects, frame structure, the shape of speech bubbles, and much more all act as critical elements to the telling of the story. Explore these examples and prompts for keeping readers engaged.

Represent and Respect with TeachingBooks

Identify exceptional inclusive books for children and teens and infuse the experience with culturally relevant materials. Support the integration of award-winning texts and authors with the TeachingBooks Diverse Books Toolkit.

Contests & Giveaways

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

• Inside In: X-Rays of Nature's Hidden World by Jan Paul Schutten (Greystone Kids, 2021)
• Susie B. Won't Back Down by Margaret Finnegan (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
• AfterMath by Emily Barth Isler (Lerner, 2021)
• and more!

See the October Contests & Giveaways on our blog.

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