
Last Tuesday was Teacher Appreciation Night at Books & Books, Coral Gables, Fla., which teamed up with its Random House Children's sales rep and with Arts for Learning, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching and learning through the arts. The party featured reader's guides, posters and ARCs; a Skype chat with Laurel Snyder, author of Bigger Than a Bread Box (Random House); a live appearance by Christina Gonzalez, author of The Red Umbrella; a book preview and teachers guide presentation by Random House rep Sarah Nasif; and a group poetry activity with Janet Evans of Arts for Learning. From l.: Books & Books owner Mitchell Kaplan; Random rep Nasif; author Christina Gonzalez; and Susana Saumell, a Miami Dade public schools teacher and mentoring teacher at Arts for Learning.

