Pirate Crossword: Free Teaching Tool for “A Pirate’s Guide to First Grade”
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade, In the Classroom | No Comments »Forgive me, it's an unusual blog day here at the jamespreller.com factory. I've been unloading some stuff from a found file. Here's a nice companion for my book A Pirate's Guide to First Grade, illustrated by Greg Ruth. If you ...
Arrrr: Photos, Videos, Fun Stuff from a School Visit!
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade, School Visits | No Comments »I'm very sorry that I cannot for the life of me remember which school gave me this wonderful material. I know that Ms. Harmon, the media specialist, was the driving force behind much of it. Authors are so lucky when a ...
When Keith Sings: The Ultimate Keith Richards/Rolling Stones Mix
Monday, June 20th, 2011 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade, Music, Readings | No Comments »I recently finished reading the Keith Richards biography, Life, which I largely enjoyed. It's not a great book, huge gaps, not particularly well organized or written, and it suffers from a classic case of the unreliable narrator (this is Keith ...
Come to The Eric Carle Museum, Saturday, June 4: Guest Artists, Demonstrations, Panel Discussions, Wild Fun
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade, Happenings | No Comments »Exciting events are happening this Saturday at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA, featuring presentations by Tomie dePaola, Diane deGroat, John Gurney, Astrid Sheckels, and more. Let's hear our friend Greg Ruth, illustrator of A Pirate's Guide to First Grade, ...
When the Video Guys Came Over
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade, the writing process | 2 Comments »Dan and Ernie from Spoken Arts Media stopped by the house last week to film moi in a brief video segment. Spoken Arts creates audio and video adaptations of children's books, which they sell in DVD form to the educational ...
Fan Mail Wednesday #103 (The Video Edition!)
Thursday, December 9th, 2010 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade, Fan Mail, Fun Clips, School Visits | 2 Comments »Any author can answer a letter the old-fashioned way -- that is, pay their hired assistant Roxanne to stuff an envelope. But a video letter? That takes someone who can't actually type! This is for you, Ms. Aberman's class at Edgewood ...
Thanks, and so on and so forth
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade, Fun Clips, Readings | 1 Comment »I came across this quote on a school visit during some down time. I loved it immediately and copied it down: "IF OUR LIVES DON'T FEEL SIGNIFICANT, SOMETIMES IT'S NOT OUR LIVES, BUT OUR RESPONSE TO OUR LIVES, WHICH NEEDS TO BE ...
Forget the Book — Watch the Trailer!
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade | 1 Comment »Here's the hot new trailer for A Pirate's Guide to First Grade -- just flown in from Hollywood on a big ol' jet airliner! My friends made this as a personal favor to me, at cost. I was surprised to learn ...
Pirate’s Booty & Some Snaps
Friday, October 1st, 2010 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade, The Gender Gap in Reading | No Comments »Ahoy, me hearties! I am struggling with spacing issues for the photos, but I can't fuss over this any longer. Sorry about the mess. So much to talk about these days -- my head is spinning with thoughts on "books for ...
Overheard: “I can taste things without eating them. That’s my power!”
Friday, September 17th, 2010 Posted in A Pirates Guide to First Grade, Family | 1 Comment »Okay, a few things: * My daughter is an enthusiastic girl, prone to exclamations and grand pronouncements. Especially when it comes to food. Maggie loves to eat, and does so with the zeal of a rhinoceros. Last night I told her ...