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6.12.10. We Grew It--Let's Eat It! is featured on NPR's Weekend Edition. "Garden Gives City Kids A Taste For Veggies: Annie and Veda's Garden."
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!
5.8.10. We Grew It--Let’s Eat It! is one of five featured books at Smithsonian Horticulture’s Garden Fest at Enid Haupt Garden (behind the Smithsonian Castle)
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!
5.5.10. We Grew It--Let’s Eat It!’s FaceBook fan page tops 200.
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.
4.12.10. We Grew It--Let's Eat It! is in final production stages at Beacon Printing. Tenley Circle Press is now taking orders, which will be delivered as soon as the books arrive.
3.19.10. We Grew It--Let’s Eat It! FaceBook Fan Page is launched.
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
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.
With a heavy heart we report that our beloved Carol W. Eliot, 68, died January 25, 2010, 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.
11.25.2009. The new Tenley Circle Press newsletter is released!
November 2009 Newsletter
10.21.2009.
Tenley Circle Press in the news!
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. (9.1.09)
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.
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! (8.25.09)
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TCP became a member of The Children’s Book Guild of Washington thanks to nomination by Edie Ching, librarian at Washington Latin Public Charter School, and children’s book author, Erica Perl (6.25.09)
TCP did benefit readings for The Bishop John T. Walker School and Tifereth Israel Congregation’s Himmelfarb School at Politics & Prose (5.9.09 and 3.29.09)
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. (4.2.09)
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! (1.25.09)
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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.