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Calling all photogs...
 Love photography? Love nature? Have we got a contest for you. The annual BC SPCA Wildlife-In-Focus photography contest is now open, and photos submitted by August 15 will be considered for Nicholas Read's (The Salmon Bears, The Sea Wolves) upcoming book, City Critters: Living Wild in the Urban Jungle, which will be published Spring 2012.
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More digital for your school...
Orca digital subscriptions are now available for iPads and all your android devices. Our annual subscriptions, with unlimited multi-user access for one low price, are already a great value. Now your students can access high-quality fiction from iPads and android devices at school and at home for an additional fee of $1 per title. Want more information about Orca Digital Subscriptions? Get it here.
You can also learn more about all of our digital (and print!) offerings in our hot-off-the-presses 2011 Education Catalog. Click here to download a copy or view it online. |
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City Kids is "revelatory"...
 Congratulations to XJ Kennedy, whose City Kids: Street and Skyscraper Rhymes (Tradewind Books) was named a Lion and The Unicorn Honor Book for 2011! The Lion and the Unicorn awards excellence in North American Poetry. In their awards essay, the judges said the "carefully woven rhythm and rhyme" of "The Man with the Tan Hands" "makes the mundane street scene something revelatory." They also comment that "[o]ne of the many great strengths of this volume is Kennedy's ability to make us see from the poetic object's perspective rather than the poet's."
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Just in time for school...
Have you downloaded your free issue of Text2Reader, Orca's new Language Arts program for middle schools?
Text2Reader is a monthly stand-alone resource that offers high-quality reading selections and engaging activities to help your students make meaning from what they read. And for you? We've packaged a boatload of easy-to-use, teacher-created comprehension exercises, reading and writing activities, assessments and opportunities for enrichment.
And if that's not enough, for a limited time, receive 10% off a one-year subscription and be entered to win a Kobo eReader!
So go grab your free issue! It's right here waiting for you.
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