FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - December 4, 2002
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Esme Codell's Postcard from Planet Esme will spotlight the latest and greatest in children's literature
SAN DIEGO, CA -- Teachers.Net has added another highly successful author to its lineup of columnists in its popular Teachers.Net Gazette webzine. Esme Raji Codell will write about the best in children's books in her monthly "Postcard from Planet Esme" column.
"Postcard from Planet Esme" will include personal recommendations and cheerleading for books, expanded from the intimate e-mailings that previously went out to Esme's exclusive list of book lovers. According to Codell, "By widening that circle through this online alliance, even more children will be on the receiving end of the latest and greatest in children's literature, as teachers will be invited to cook up classroom delights using these monthly recipes for read-aloud.
"Getting great children's books into the hands of great children is the goal of PlanetEsme.com," she says. Her creation, PlanetEsme.com is one of the most popular independent children's literature websites. Codell continues, "A perfect alliance has been formed with Teachers.Net, where excellent educators with the same goal meet and greet!"
Esme Raji Codell, site director of PlanetEsme.com, was a children's bookseller for seven years, a teacher and school librarian for the Chicago Public Schools for five, and is the author of Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teachers First Year (Algonquin,1999), of which there are more than 100,000 copies in print. Codell has two new books coming out in 2003. How to Get Your Child to Love Reading, is a comprehensive guidebook for parents and teachers written in the hopes that children's literature can be an effective bridge between home and school. Sahara Special is an intermediate novel about a mislabeled special education student who loves to write.
With the enthusiasm of a cheerleader, Codell invites educators to partake of her column and "get it while it's hot: engaging themes, hot links, great new book releases and author/illustrator buzz…it will add new spice to every teacher's lesson plans!"
Codell joins luminaries such as Harry K. Wong, Marv Marshall, Marjan Glavac and others familiar in the world of educators who write monthly for the Teachers.Net Gazette.
The Teachers.Net Gazette has been published online since March 2000. The current issue is always available at http://teachers.net/gazette while all back issues remain available at http://teachers.net/gazette/backissues. Editor Kathleen Alape Carpenter and technical editor Mary Miehl can be reached by email at editor@teachers.net.