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Todd Whitaker. Todd Whitaker is an American educator, writer, motivational speaker, educational consultant, and professor. A leading presenter in the field of education, Dr. Whitaker has published over 60 books on staff motivation, teacher leadership, technology, middle level practices, instructional improvement, and principal effectiveness, including the national best-seller, What Great ...
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization that acts as a network for the exchange of knowledge between writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, agents, librarians, educators, booksellers and others involved with literature for young people.
Oleksandr Dermanskyi, known as Sashko Dermanskyi (born 28 November 1976), is a Ukrainian writer who wrote many novels and books of poetry for children.Many of his books have received critical acclaim and are well known in Ukraine.
Book Club is a monthly series from Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis, exploring the literature that inspires some of our favorite musicians. Whether it’s a music biography that got them through the ...
She began writing The Baby-Sitters Club series in 1985 while working for Scholastic as a children's book editor. [2] After Martin wrote the first 35 novels in The Baby-Sitters Club series, Scholastic hired ghostwriters to continue the series. [8] In 2010, Martin published a prequel to The Baby-Sitters Club series titled The Summer Before. [9] [10]
Nearly all the books were written by Mabel O'Donnell, who also wrote an Anglicisation of the series, named Janet and John. [4] O'Donnell was a teacher, supervisor and curriculum coordinator for elementary schools in East Aurora Public School District 131. Most of the books were illustrated by Florence and Margaret Hoopes.
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group . Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries , bookstores , online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
Formerly My Weekly Reader, the Weekly Reader was a weekly newspaper for elementary school children. It was first published by the American Education Press of Columbus, Ohio, which had been founded in 1902 by Charles Palmer Davis to publish Current Events, a paper for secondary school children. [3] The first issue appeared on September 21, 1928. [4]