Hello, and welcome to my website...
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Yes, that's me, in both pictures. The one to the right was drawn by a first grader after a visit to his school. I'd say he did a pretty good job, wouldn't you? The one below is also me, albeit a bit staged. Both capture the artistic flair that I bring to all of my author and storytelling programs.
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And now what's new in my writing life...
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First of all, I have a new book coming out next year. It's called The Dancin' Fox and will be published by August House, a fine publisher of storytelling materials and books. The book's illustrator is Daniel San Souci. I've seen some sketches and they're very exciting. I wrote this story based on an Aesop fable about a fox who comes across some turkeys in a tree (see picture to the left). The first part of the story is about the fox getting the turkeys out of the tree. The second part of the story are the turkeys outfoxing the fox and getting back into the tree before getting eaten up.
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| Another bit of good news is that starting this fall you'll be able to buy How We Are Smart in a paperback edition. The best-selling and award-winning book (which won a Christopher Award in 2007) has been a real hit in the upper elementary and middle school grades. It's a great introduction to poetry, biography, and to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
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Lee & Low Books has a new website...
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Lee and Low Books has updated their website. Now, not only will you find my Lee and Low books (and classroom activities based on them), but you'll be able to order my books directly from their website. There's lots of reasons to use the Lee and Low website. You can securely buy books using any major credit card or school purchase order, receive web-only discounts, get free shipping, and win occasional giveaways.
Their Bookshelf allows you to store books that you are interested in without placing them in your shopping cart. Their advance search capabilities allow you to search for books by title, author, illustrator, ISBN, and subject matter. Sounds like an advertisement? Well, it is of sorts, because I have six titles with Lee and Low, many of them my best-selling books. So, go to leeandlow.com and start looking for the following titles...
Bein' With You This Way (1994), available in hardcover and paperback in both English and Spanish. America: My Land, Your Land, Our Land (1997), available in hardcover, and as a dual-language board book under the name America: A Book of Opposites. Can You Top That? (2000), available as a BeBop classroom pack book. Summer Sun Risin' (2002), available in hardcover and paperback in English and Spanish and as a BeBop classroom pack book. My Teacher Can Teach...Anyone! (2004), available in Enblish in hardcover and as a high quality paperback. How We Are Smart (2006), available in English in hardcover and soon high quality paperback.
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