About Tilbury House
Editorial Guidelines
Ordering Information
About Our Children's Books
and Teacher's Guides
CHILDREN'S BOOKS:
Always My Brother—NewBear-ly There—New
Remember Me: Tomah Joseph's Gift to Franklin Roosevelt—New
Amadi's Snowman
Carpet Boy's Gift, The
Everybody's Somebody's Lunch
Gift for Gita, A
Give a Goat
Goat Lady, The
Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils
Just for Elephants
Keep Your Ear on the Ball
Life Under Ice
Lights for Gita
Lucy's Family Tree
Mushroom Man, The
Muskrat Will Be Swimming
Opening Day
Our Friendship Rules
Playing War
Project Puffin
Roses for Gita
Saving Birds
Say Something
Sea Soup: Phytoplankton
Sea Soup: Zooplankton
Shelterwood
Shy Mama's Halloween
Spirit That Moves Us, The (Vol. I)
Spirit That Moves Us, The (Vol. II)
Spirit That Moves Us, The (Vol. III)
Stone Wall Secrets
Talking Walls
Talking Walls: the Stories Continue
Thanks to the Animals
Travels with Tarra
Under the Night Sky
Very Best Bed, The
Welcoming Babies
When the Bees Fly Home
Who Belongs Here?
Tilbury House publishes award-winning children’s books that help young people build character, appreciate cultural diversity, and explore the natural world. For parents and educators seeking to share and discuss the complexities of the world, our books offer opportunities through the stories of real-to-life children in contemporary settings. For instance, books such as Our Friendship Rules and Say Something invite conversation about bullying and teasing; Playing War offers a gentle, but realistic way to discuss the impact of war.
We are publishing three wonderful new children’s books this year. Based on fact, Remember Me: Tomah Joseph’s Gift to Franklin Roosevelt is the story of a Passamaquoddy elder and former chief who befriended the boy who would become an American president. Always My Brother tells how a young girl and her parents recover after the death of her brother. It’s a story that will help with the loss of a friend or family member. Bear-ly There brings us more of Rebekah Raye’s wonderful animal paintings in her tale about a bear who shows up in the back yard, when it’s best for everyone (including the bear) if the bear stays in the woods.
Together with educators who are specialists in their fields, Tilbury House has developed imaginative, user-friendly teacher's guides for many of our books and some stand-alone teacher’s guides. We also offer "Teachers Take Note" activity and discussion guides on each of our children's book pages on our website. These cyber guides include literature links and further resources for using our books in classrooms or in homeschool settings. For suggestions on using our books for focused reading, please see the suggestions below.
Our books are approved for the California Instructional Materials Fund and the New York State Textbook List, and most are Accelerated Reader™ and Scholastic Reading Counts! books.
—Jennifer Bunting, Publisher
—Audrey Maynard, Children’s Books Editor
—Karen Fisk, Associate Children's Book Editor
Focused Reading for Positive Choices
In a complex world, having the right book at the right time can make all the difference. Tilbury House has a powerful book list that affirms children's strength as problem-solvers and promotes children's ability to make a difference in their world. For adults working with children to uphold good decision-making, we offer these Reading for Positive Choices suggestions.Anti-Bullying:
How can a young people learn to respond with integrity to the cliquish and bullying behaviors of others? Tilbury House has published a number of anti-bullying books that imaginatively address this question. The award-winning books in this group feature boys and girls acting with admirable depth and decency. Say Something, Our Friendship Rules, Muskrat Will Be Swimming, Who Belongs Here?
How to Be a Good Friend:
Making and keeping friends is an art. Young readers of our books will enjoy exploring the variations on this theme woven through these engaging stories. Tilbury House is proud of these books that realistically depict children navigating their differences and developing new ideas about what true friendship means. Our Friendship Rules, The Goat Lady, Keep Your Ear on the Ball, Playing War, Opening Day, Mushroom Man, Say Something
Best for Boys:
Tilbury House seeks out unusual books that show how boys can rely on their own emotional intelligence to solve problems, including some that relate to poverty and injustice. The boys in the stories behave in ways that often are ingenious, brave, mischievous, and empathetic. All of these books invite re-reading. Amadi's Snowman, The Carpet Boy's Gift, Opening Day, When the Bees Fly Home, Playing War, Bear-ly There
Great for Girls:
Inner strength and the bonds of friendship put this group of Tilbury House titles in a league of their own! Young people will love reading these stories about girls who discover new ways to show their mettle. Say Something, Our Friendship Rules, Muskrat Will be Swimming, The Gita Series
Helping Hands:
True or not? Can just one person create positive change? This collection of non-fiction Tilbury House books will provide young readers with examples that show how real people have made a big difference in the lives of others. These books are particularly inspiring for service-learning projects. * Please see our From Picture Books to Projects web page guide to engaging students in service learning through our books. Give a Goat, Saving Birds, Project Puffin, The Goat Lady, The Carpet Boy's Gift, Just For Elephants
How Nature Works:
It is good to be green, but how do we pass that lesson on to our children? This collection of award-winning, and time-tested Tilbury House stories will serve as a marvelous introduction for children to the idea of stewardship of the natural world. From stones to trees, from the tiniest organism to the largest, these books will help young readers explore science through story. Stonewall Secrets, Shelterwood, Sea Soup: Phytoplankton, Sea Soup: Zooplankton, Everybody's Somebody's Lunch, Just for Elephants, Travels with Tarra, Life Under Ice, Under the Night Sky, Very Best Bed, Saving Birds, Bear-ly There
Animal Stewardship:
What is our ethical responsibility to the animals around us? From puffins to elephants our animal stewardship collection explores these questions without shaming or shaking fingers, but instead modeling sympathetic and successful intervention. Saving Birds, Project Puffin, Travels with Tarra, Just for Elephants, Bear-ly There
Native American
Our Native American books are not ancient legends, but contemporary stories with messages for a contemporary audience. Tilbury House is especially proud of the fact that our books have given voice to authors who come from tribes in New England. Thanks to the Animals, Muskrat Will be Swimming, Remember Me
Multicultural:
Tilbury House has been publishing award-winning multicultural children’s literature since 1992 when Talking Walls was published. Author Margy Burns Night and illustrator Anne Sibley O’Brien received the National Education Association's Author-Illustrator Human and Civil Rights Award for their work in 1997. Tilbury House commitment to quality multicultural literature has strengthened over the years. Our hope remains that through our books children will learn that each of us has a story to tell and a heritage worth preserving. Talking Walls, Talking Walls: The Stories Continue; Who Belongs Here, Welcoming Babies, The Gita Series, The Carpet Boy's Gift, Amadi's Snowman, Muskrat Will Be Swimming, Playing War. Thanks to the Animals, Remember Me
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