Try this healthy recipe for the New Year from our book Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils
Soba with Sesame and Ginger
1 Package Soba Noodles
2 Tablespoons Tahini
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup fresh grated ginger (1/2 teaspoon dried ginger)
1/2 pound tofu cut into 1-inch cubes
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon soy sauce
parsley(optional)
Cook noodles in boiling water for 8-10 minutes. Drain noodles and add tahini, ginger and salt. Saute tofu in sesame oil and season with soy sauce before adding to the noodles. Serve hot or cold.
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| Tilbury House Newsletter Jan. 2011 |
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Featured Book
|  Maine in the World by former legislator and award-winning historian Neil Rolde is an inspiring look at the many adventurous Maine inhabitants who traveled the world and made a name for themselves. From the writers Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edna St. Vincent Millay to acclaimed Hollywood film director John Ford to Hiram Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, readers are bound to find a story that interests them. Rolde is also the author of O. Murray Carr, a political novel. Neil Rolde will be at Maine Coast Books in Damariscotta, ME on January 15 at noon. |
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Reviews
|  Home School Blogger has posted books reviews for One of Us, The Goat Lady, Stone Wall Secrets, Keep Your Ear on the Ball, Lucy's Family Tree, and Healthy Foods From Healthy Soils.
Live Yankees by W.H. Bunting was reviewed in the December issue of The Sea Chest: Journal of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society.
"This book represents the history of one of the most important American sailing ship ship-builders and shipowners of the last half of the 19th century... a book well worth reading because of its depth and attention to detail."--Michael Jay Mjelde
Our colorful children's book Moon Watchers: Shirin's Ramadan Miracle is featured in the current issue of the Children's Bookwatch from The Midwest Book Review under the Islamic Studies section."Moon Watchers is a beautifully illustrated story of one of the most sacred customs of Muslims, Ramadan."
Well Out to Sea by Eva Murray has received a great review from The Fisherman's Voice. "Her [Eva Murray's] collection of short stories describes a reality and provides a wake-up call to a vast array of myths about island life."
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A Word From Our Publisher
| When an illustrator sends us a package of paintings for a new book, we open it with almost holiday anticipation. Yes, we've seen samples of his or her work before, and we've gone back and forth with a penciled dummy of the page spreads. But there's nothing like opening the box, undoing the protective wrappings, and then revealing the finished paintings one by one. If the psychologists who share our rather cramped warren of offices don't have patients waiting on the hallway couches, we'll set up an impromptu art show, propping the paintings up in the order in which they'll appear in the book, and then gathering to look at them. Usually Audrey tries to read the story aloud to us as we move from one painting to the next, but she's always interrupted by "Ohhhhhhh" and "Look at the color in this one!" and "See how she got that just right?!" The story, which we've thinking about for months and months, is suddenly alive! --Jennifer Bunting
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Upcoming Events
|  Anne C. Bromley author of The Lunch Thief will be kicking off the New Year at Hardy Elementary School in San Diego on January 19.
Author Neil Rolde will be at Mid Coast Books in Damariscotta on January 15 at noon signing copies of O. Murray Carr and his other books.
Author Kerck Kelsey will be at the Auburn Public Library at February 3 at noon to talk about his book Albert Hannibal Builds a City. You can also pick up a copy of his latest book Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family.
Starting in February a painting by illustrator Lea Lyon from her children's book Keep Your Ear on the Ball will be on exhibit at the Sun Gallery in Hayward, CA.
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A Note About Blogs
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Bloggers have been a topic of much debate amongst the publishing world. It is hard to say what effect a good blog review will have in the promotion of an author or sales of a book. It's a guessing game and one that Tilbury House has been playing for quite some time. Every spring for the past few years our new children's books are sent out for review. This list of reviewers includes a wide variety of review publications, but also children's book bloggers. Some review requests result in excellent and insightful reviews that help promote our books to new audiences, but others go unanswered. So what's the problem? Once one of our books has been reviewed by a certain blog, we have established a relationship with the reviewer. This makes it easier to get new titles reviewed, but bloggers, just like traditional literary publications, can be selective. So while one blog might relish accepting your book about character education, the next might reject it because of personal taste.
Perhaps the greatest achievement of book bloggers is that they can bring recognition to a book that has never been reviewed or to an imprint that is not very well known. It is easy to find 30 reviews of the latest best seller, but bloggers help bring less well known but important children's books to home schoolers, teachers, and guidance counselors. Bloggers love what they read and want to share it for the pure satisfaction of getting the news out there.
Some of our favorite bloggers are Books that Heal Kids, Character Counts, Writing on the Sidewalk, and Read, Write, Repeat.
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In the News
| The Grow Healthy New Jersey Initiative will start this year in nine New Jersey schools. The program will be established through the Team Nutrition Grant and is sponsored by Rutgers Cooperative Extension/ Family and Community Health Science Department.
Each of the schools will receive a garden-based education program, including the creation of a school garden. The program will use the text Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils (Tilbury House) as a resource for participating teachers. New Jersey Food Service Personnel and students will be trained on basic farm-to-table concepts. Through the program students will be able to connect with their new gardens and the fruits and vegetables they grow.
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Here at Tilbury House, we appreciate your support and your feedback, so please tell us what you think of our books and our newsletter.
Sincerely,
Eleanor Tetreau, Publicity
Tilbury House, Publishers
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Tilbury House, Publishers
103 Brunswick Avenue
Gardiner, Maine
04345
eleanor@tilburyhouse.com
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