11.15.11. Annette Abrams and her book, My Body Needs Help, are featured in the National Institutes of Health's November 2011 issue of Clinical Center News.
10.19.11. Montgomery County Gazette finds inspiration in My Body Needs Help and poet/artist Annette Abrams.
10.7.11. Rhoda Trooboff's review of Alice Hoffman's novel The Dovekeepers appears in the Washington Independent Review of Books.
8.30.11. Annette Abrams's story and My Body Needs Help are enthusiastically described in Baltimore Sun!
8.9.11. Annette Abrams greets supporters and signs copies of My Body Needs Help at a launch party sponsored by Lucy Martin McBride MD in Washington, DC.
8.4.11. Congratulations to Annette Abrams on the publication of My Body Needs Help! Copies are now available from Tenley Circle Press and book retailers.
5.11.11. J-A Creative’s Anna Nazaretz Radjou has been honored with a 2011 Hermes Creative Award at the Platinum level for her design of We Grew It--Let’s Eat It! Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals.
4.26.11. Rhoda Trooboff's review of Francisco Goldman's novel Say Her Name appears in Washington Independent Review of Books.
4.15.11. Ginseng 2011, the Literary Journal of the Garrett County (Maryland) Arts Council, publishes poems by Rhoda Trooboff.
2.23.11. TCP authors Sue Ruff, Justine Kenin, and Mary Carpenter join 50 local artisans and authors at Adas Israel Congregation's Gan HaYeled First Annual Artisan and Book Fair.
2.1.11. In the winter issue of Washington Gardener magazine, reviewer Erica Smith writes enthusiastically of We Grew It--Let's Eat It: "A charming book perfect to inspire kids to become gardeners. . . . The story is a universal one. . . . Full of colorful and lively photographs."
1.28.11. Lost and Found in the Mississippi Sound is now available for purchase at Brooklyn's New York Aquarium and Paradise Island Oceanarium in The Bahamas!
12.6.10. Book Launch Party in Chevy Chase, Maryland for Lost and Found in the Mississippi Sound two days after authors Katie and Mary Carpenter swim in the Bahamas with the book's dolphin stars.
12.1.10. Lost and Found in the Mississippi Sound is published.
11.1.10. We Grew It--Let's Eat It! can now be found in the healthy-eating book section of mid-Atlantic Whole Foods Markets. If you don't see it, please ask!
9.9.10. Annie and Veda Hedgepeth help Loulie's chefs cook healthy suppers and sign copies of We Grew It--Let's Eat It! at the FarmFresh Market near the White House.
5.22.10. Justine Kenin reads We Grew It--Let’s Eat It! to a standing-room-only crowd at Politics & Prose Bookstore in support of DC’s Murch Elementary School.
5.21.10. Justine Kenin reads We Grew It--Let’s Eat It! to kindergartners at Spring Hill Elementary School in McLean, VA.
5.15.10. Justine Kenin reads We Grew It--Let’s Eat It! on the “Main Stage” at the 13th annual Turtle Park Fair in NW DC.
5.7.10-5.31.10. Modern Times Coffeehouse exhibits Becky Lettenberger’s photos from We Grew It--Let’s Eat It!
5.7.10. Stephanie Kaye of WAMU 88.5FM’s Metro Connection interviews Annie and Veda Hedgepeth, Justine Kenin, and Rhoda Trooboff about gardening, writing, and publishing We Grew It--Let’s Eat It!
5.1.10. We Grew It--Let’s Eat It! is officially registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.
4.25.10. DC’s Children’s Art Studio hosts launch party for We Grew It--Let’s Eat It!
4.19.10. Beacon Printing delivers We Grew It--Let’s Eat It!
4.13.10. Online urban organic garden enthusiasts are introduced to We Grew It--Let’s Eat It! by Vancouver BC’s City Farmer News.
3.14.10. Sue Ruff signed copies of Artie and Merlin following performances at the Wild Side Stage at the National Zoo’s Visitor Center. She also reports that the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History featured Artie and Merlin at their big event for teachers last fall and that co-author Don E. Wilson did a signing at that event and again at an event in the winter.
4.8.10. Rhoda Trooboff read A Book for Elie at DC's National Child Research Center.
Sue forwarded the following messages from families of satisfied young readers:
"Artie and Merlin is the perfect book for my second grader’s reading level. I also want you to know how much the book has captured him. On the way home from a soccer game recently, he said to me out of the blue, 'Mom, I wonder what animal Artie will meet next?' I don't think he has ever had a book on his mind before on a Saturday!"
"At first my son rolled his eyes and said it looked like a kids' book. Then he opened up and started looking through it. A few minutes later he said, 'Oh, I like possums' and kept reading. This morning he put it in his backpack and took it to school."
"My great niece had loved to read but was not enjoying it any longer until she read your book. She LOVED it. When is your next one coming out?"
2.25.10. Rhoda read A Book for Elie to kindergartners at DC’s Jewish Primary Day School.
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1.25.10. With a heavy heart we report that our beloved Carol W. Eliot, 68, died today of cancer at The Washington Home.
Born Carol Hobson Winfield in Petersburg, VA, she graduated from Westhampton College (now part of the University of Richmond) in Richmond, VA and earned a Bachelor of Divinity Degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC.
From 1966 to 1972, Carol served as Minister of Youth and Drama at First Baptist Church in Washington, DC. In 1983, she joined the faculty of National Cathedral School in DC, teaching comparative religion, ethics and the Holocaust, cathedral architecture, and human development.
From 2008 until her death she worked with Tenley Circle Press, helping to publish several new books and putting them into the hands of young readers.
While at National Cathedral School, she was a Teaching Fellow at the National Holocaust Museum and served on the board of directors of the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education (previously known as the Council for Religion in Independent Schools).
She is survived by her husband of 37 years, Frank C. Eliot of Bethesda; their sons Andrew Eliot of Wilmington, DE, Christopher Eliot of Brooklyn, NY, and Philip Eliot of Arlington VA; two sisters; one brother; and one granddaughter.
Contributions may be made to either the Council for Spiritual & Ethical Education, P.O. Box 19807, Portland, OR 97280, or The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 6201 Dunrobbin Dr, Bethesda MD 20816.
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11.25.09. The new Tenley Circle Press newsletter is released!
November 2009 Newsletter
9.1.09. Sue Ruff’s and Don Wilson’s Artie and Merlin is now available for purchase. The adventures of an amiable pig and erudite big brown bat are told in twelve engaging, information-filled chapters illustrated by Lolette Guthrie. Middle elementary grade readers will love this tale of two mammal friends who share an interest in animal physiology. Designed by Margaret Allen.
9.1.09. Witchful Thinking, Mary Jane Mitchell’s tongue-in-cheek cauldron of witch poems, is now available for purchase. Illustrated by Jim Adcock and designed by Anna Nazaretz Radjou.
Coming in early 2010, a picture book about urban organic veggie and berry gardening: We Grew It! Let’s Eat It Written and illustrated by Annie and Veda Hedgepeth, as told to Justine Kenin, with photographs by Becky Lettenberger.
8.25.09. Shoutout to Lillian Li (NCS ’09), TCP’s summer 2009 intern who rigorously proofread Artie and Merlin and Witchful Thinking and did essential groundwork for future TCP books. Best wishes to Lillian as she begins Princeton this fall!
4.2.09. Rhoda gave an illustrated talk entitled “Because We Love Children and Books: The Story of Tenley Circle Press” to Edie Ching’s Library Science class at University of Maryland.
1.25.09. Many thanks to Becky Schotland Wolsk and Connie Rhind Robey for their book party celebrating A Book for Elie. Everyone enjoyed viewing the full set of the book’s painted wood panels by Anna Nazaretz Radjou and munching Carol Eliot’s lizard-shaped sugar cookies!
During the 2008-2009 school year we read to nearly 200 children in DC, Maryland, and West Virginia schools, daycare centers, libraries, and preschools.
11.17.2008. Tenley Circle Press newsletter is released!
November 2008 Newsletter
11.17.2008. Tenley Circle Press rolls out its new website, revised by web designer Ellen Twomey.
11.15.2008. A Book for Elie is launched in Vienna (WV) with a reading at the Vienna Public Library and a book party at the home of Rhoda's dear Wellesley friend, Terry Cauthorn.
11.14.2008. Rhoda reads Ben, the Bells and the Peacocks at the Parkersburg (WV) Day Nursery and Y.
11.12.2008. A Book for Elie is ready for distribution.
10.23.2008. Anna Nazaretz Radjou delivers files of A Book for Elie to Beacon Printing.
7.1.2008. Carol Eliot joins the staff of Tenley Circle Press.
