Valentine's Day Treat
Danielle's Chocolate Raspberry Tartlets
Tart Shells
2 cups flour
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1.5 sticks cold butter (cubed)
1 egg
1 egg yolk
ice water
Place flour, sugar, and salt in food processor. Add butter and pulse until sandy in texture. Add egg and yolk and pulse until moist. If dough is dry add a little ice water. Wrap dough and refrigerate 1 hour.
Once chilled divide to into 6 balls. Roll out dough and place into 4-inch tart pans. Clean edges and prick dough with fork to prevent from rising. Freeze shells for 30 minutes then bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Allow to cool before filling.
Filling
11 oz bittersweet chocolate
12 oz heavy cream
2 tbs. light corn syrup
dash salt
1/3 cup seedless raspberry jam
1 tbs butter
2 tbs raspberry liqueur or raspberry juice
fresh raspberries
Chop chocolate and place in heat- proof bowl. Heat the cream, corn syrup, and salt in a pan. Pour hot cream mixture over chocolate and allow it to melt. Stir with whisk then add in jam, butter, and liqueur.
Pour the chocolate filling into tart shells and decorate with fresh raspberries. Refrigerate to set, then enjoy!
From the Book
A1 Diner by Sarah Rolph
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Tilbury House Newsletter Feb. 2011
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Featured Book
|  Why does Amadi's mother insist he learn to read words when he is going to be a great businessman? Why should an Igbo man of Nigeria waste precious time on books, anyway? When Amadi disobeys his mother and runs off to the market instead of sticking around for a reading lesson, he encounters a much-admired older boy secretly reading at a book stall. Crowding himself in among the stacks of books, Amadi becomes intrigued by a storybook with pictures of a strange white creature with a carrot for a nose. Over the course of a typical mischievous day, unable to shake his questions about the snowman, Amadi discovers the vast world reading could open up--especially for an Igbo man of Nigeria. |
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A Word From Our Publisher
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Amadi's Snowman is a great book for reluctant readers: it has an engaging storyline set in Nigeria, wonderful illustrations, and shows how reading can answer a puzzling question or open a window to a new world. (If Amadi would like to see a LOT of snow, he could come to Maine right now. . . .)
At a workshop at NEIBA last fall, author Mitali Perkins spoke about books as windows or books as mirrors. We try for both with our children's books at Tilbury House--by showing diversity as a matter of course, by often having the protagonist be a child of color, or by showing a mixed-raced family. At the same time, we're trying to get children to explore different ways of thinking and seeing--about other cultures, about relationships, about the environment. A picture book is a wonderful vehicle for building understanding. All of us here learn something in the process of creating it, but our greatest pleasure is thinking about the young readers who will enjoy it.-- Jennifer Bunting
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In the News and On the Web
|  Amadi illustrator Dimitrea Tokunbo has been named an honoree for the 28 Days Later Campaign on The Brown Bookshelf. Take a look at Amadi author Katia Novet Saint-Lot's wonderful blog and see where children are reading her book in Amadi Around the World. The IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Disabled Young People has selected Keep Your Ear on the Ball to become a part of their collection in Norway. Great mention of our new children's book One of Us on Laura MacFarlane's website. Moon Watchers' author Reza Jalali and illustrator Anne Sibley O'Brien made a visit to Jordan Acres School. |
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Upcoming Events
|  Bill Bunting, author of Live Yankees, Sea Struck, and many others, has provided the captions for an exhibit of photos of rural Maine, drawn from the Penobscot Marine Museum's collection of glass plate negatives from the Eastern Illustrated Company. The exhibit is on display at the Maine Farmland Trust in Belfast. The exhibit will run through March 25.
Neil Rolde will be a the Falmouth Public Library on February 8 at noon signing and speaking about his book Maine in the World.
Anne C. Bromley author of The Lunch Thief will be at the Encinitas Day School speaking to classes on February 8. Check out this latest post on the Writing on the Sidewalk blog about Anne's participation in the 45th annual local author exhibit at the San Diego Public Library.
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Celebrate Valentine's Day with Friendship!
|  Our Friendship Rules by Peggy Moss and Dee Dee Tardif and Illustrated by Alissa Imre Geis is a great book about making your friendship last through thick and thin. Travels with Tarra by Carol Buckley is about the touching love story between the author and an elephant named Tarra, and Just for Elephants is her joyful story about an elephant reunion. Remember Me is the wonderful story of the friendship that formed between the Passamaquoddy elder Tomah Joseph and a young Franklin Roosevelt during the summers that Roosevelt spent on Campobello Island. |
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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
1-207-582-1899
1-800-582-1899
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