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09/12/2024

Taylor Swift. Stunning. With 283 million Instagram followers, she endorsed Kamala last night and suggested her followers register to vote by going to vote.gov. Apparently 338,000 of them did. FYI: 9.8 million of her followers liked the post. And, that is only within the first 19 hours. Who knows what comes next.

https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2024/09/11/taylor-swift-endorsement-tennessee-poll

Some Swifties said her endorsement could influence their vote.

01/20/2024

Bayard Rustin. What a glorious film the Obamas made. He made and lost and made again a friendship with Martin Luther King resulting in a march for equality on Washington -- to which 250,000 people showed up. That is the story and within that story lies life. Heroic, courageous, intimate, loyal, disloyal, greedy, generous, uplifting and disheartening life. But most of all, what an astonishing man. See it. See it now, streaming on Netflix.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/movies/rustin-review-civil-rights-biopic.html?campaign_id=20&emc=edit_wg_20240120&instance_id=112967&nl=watching®i_id=55040319&segment_id=155864&te=1&user_id=aa4181cb08449f9b20ea4d241bdec088 #:~:text=Whatever%20its%20flaws,%20“Rustin”,does%20Domingo's%20fantastically%20alive%20turn.

01/15/2017

Will Russell was practically a kid himself when he had a baby girl. Facing a dangerous alcohol addiction, Will was unable to provide baby Amy with the care she needed. So, he put her up for adoption shortly after she was born. Years passed, and Will found himself drawn to the Phoenix Rescue Mission,...

05/09/2014

Funny Food Art goes to Sweden!!

05/07/2014

Time for the adults to do their homework! From our very own publisher, Lena Tabori, and curated by all the teachers featured in American Teacher: Heroes in the Classroom, comes the 18 books you must read to transform and deepen your understanding of education in America.

Recommendations from the Best K-12 Teachers in the Country Last Fall, when we were publishing Katrina Fried's brilliant book, American Teacher, Heroes in the Classroom containing interviews with 50 of the best K-12 teachers in America, I asked the e...

05/06/2014

Today is the day that Blackie: The Horse Who Stood Still is available in bookstores!!!!

http://www.blackiethehorse.com/press/Blackie_PR-2014.pdf

A note from the Publisher, Lena Tabori:

"The original edition of this book was big but now we have gone small and produced 'baby' Blackie. A little book for little people with little fingers about peacefulness, patience, tenacity all qualities that this very real horse has. A classic, in the realm of Ferdinand and Dr. Seuss by two brilliant creators, full of heart, talent, fun and laughter. On sale May 6 everywhere."

In a pasture in Kansas one early spring mornA horse quite unlike other horses was born.His coat was coal black so they named the horse “Blackie,”And before very long folks found out he was wacky! Meet Blackie, the stubbornly motionless equine hero of Christopher Cerf and Paige Pe...…

05/01/2014

We are so proud of author Katrina Fried and all the incredible teachers featured in American Teacher: Heroes in the Classroom!

04/29/2014

Mother's Day is coming up! Need a plan? Treat your mom to a homemade breakfast that will make her smile and get her the book to keep her laughing all year long :) More ideas at Funny Food Art.

04/24/2014

Aaaaaand the Nautilus Book Awards Silver Medal for Social Change goes to AMERICAN TEACHER by Katrina Fried!!!