NEW Collection Analysis Reports

Are your classroom and library collections representing your community needs as you wish? Would you like fresh eyes on the diversity and inclusion of your fiction and nonfiction trade books? TeachingBooks has a powerful new tool for you.

Within minutes you can now examine your booklists, syllabi, and collections for...

• Cultural Classifications
• Genres
• Reading Levels
• Text Measures
• Recency of Publication

You also receive a printout and a spreadsheet of your collections.

Let me know what you think!

Nick Glass, TeachingBooks Founder & Executive Director
nick@TeachingBooks.net

Behind the Books: On Choices, Loss, and Self-Discovery by Sarah Lynn Scheerger

Author Sarah Lynn Scheerger talks about how receiving the news that she has a gene that increases her chances of having breast cancer made her wonder how she would have reacted had she learned it as a teenager. She shares how her book, How to Live on the Edge (Lerner, 2020), explores this idea through the lens of two very different sisters.

Read Sarah Lynn Scheerger's Guest Blog Post now.

Meet-the-Author Recording: Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington by Michael G. Long

As a black, gay activist, Bayard Rustin was one of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s primary collaborators, assisting him with tactics and organizing principles of nonviolent civil disobedience. The March on Washington was a pivotal event for the civil rights movement, and Troublemaker for Justice (City Lights, 2019) lets us know about the man who organized it.

Listen to this Meet-the-Author Recording.

Browse all of the TeachingBooks Meet-the-Author Recordings.

Raúl the Third on ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat

The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour provides opportunities to build personal connections with new books and the authors who write them.

Raúl the Third, author of ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market, a 2020 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book, joins the Virtual Book Tour to share the inspiration for his latest companion picture book, ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020).

Featured Booklist: Trans, Nonbinary, and GNC Voices to Help You Celebrate Pride

Celebrate the full spectrum of gender identity with these titles about trans and gender non-conforming people. Whether you are looking for stories you can relate to, want to learn more about the trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) community, or are just seeking a fun read, these titles are the perfect pick for Pride Month.

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

Kat Leyh is part of the award-winning team behind the Lumberjanes graphic novel series (BOOM! Box, 2016-present). Kat's debut graphic novel, Snapdragon (First Second, 2020), features genderqueer characters finding connection and understanding through identity and a bit of the supernatural. Find out if the town witch is everything the stories make her out to be and where this beautifully-rooted comic takes its origins in this episode of The Children's Book Podcast.

Summer Webinar Spotlights

Enjoy our recorded summer webinar collection and complete webinar archive. Each session showcases ways to connect readers to titles all while learning more about TeachingBooks.

Contests & Giveaways

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

• Norman and the Nom Nom Factory by Bridgette Zou (StarBerry Books, 2020)
• Picture Book Science Series by Laura Perdew (Nomad Press, 2020)
  • Spit Nests, Puke Power, and Other Brilliant Bird Adaptations
  • Water-Walking, Sidewinding, and Other Remarkable Reptile Adaptations
  • Stink Fights, Earwax, and Other Marvelous Mammal Adaptations

See the June Contests & Giveaways on our blog.