Tilbury House
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Fall 2016
Welcome to This New Old House
Welcome to Tilbury House—40 years young. The Fall 2016 season is our first with W.W. Norton distribution, and we are proud to join the Norton portfolio and tradition. Our frontlist includes titles from each of
our publishing concentrations:
Children’s Nonfiction: Our award-winning nonfiction picture books sell in bookstores as well as
libraries and schools.
Children’s stories with multicultural voices and themes: The “We Need Diverse Books” movement
is now clamoring for the sort of children’s books that Tilbury House has been publishing for years.
Nonfiction for Middle and Secondary School: Our History in 50 series, introduced by National
Book Award winner Phillip Hoose (pages 2–3), is earning rave reviews.
Literature and the Arts: How to Audition on Camera, by top Hollywood casting director Sharon Bialy
(page 13) is the newest addition to our distinguished list of books on the creative arts.
Home and Gardening How-To: The Life in Your Garden (page 14) shows gardeners how they can increase
the biodiversity of their neighborhoods and the planet while making gardening more rewarding and
successful.
New England Living: We’re in Maine, so it’s no surprise that there are New England – themed
books on our backlist and frontlist!
Maritime History: Tilbury House co-publisher Jon Eaton published the International Marine/
McGraw-Hill line of boating books for 29 years, and co-publisher Tris Coburn published sea books
at Simon & Schuster as well as International Marine. Expect to see a few how-to boating books as
well as stories of the sea in future lists.
We’re proud of our forty-year track record, but we don’t feel old. We’re just getting started!
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Nonficton • Kids in the World • Science and Nature
TILBURY HOUSE
INTRODUCING . . .
The HISTORY IN 50 Series
The HISTORY IN 50 series explores history by telling thematically linked stories. Each book includes 50 illustrated narrative accounts of people and events—some well-known, others often overlooked—that,
together, build a rich connect-the-dots mosaic and challenge conventional assumptions about
how history unfolds.
This remarkable new series is introduced by Phillip Hoose, the widely acclaimed
author of books, essays, stories, songs, and articles, including the National Book Award
and Newbery Honor winning book Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor winner The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen
and the Churchill Club. A graduate of Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry
and Environmental Sciences, Hoose was for 37 years a staff member of The Nature
Conservancy, dedicated to preserving the plants, animals, and natural communities
of the Earth. Find out more at www.philliphoose.com.
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History is rewarding , but readers deserve historical material that meets them
partway. And that is the history we have in this brilliant new series.
—Phillip Hoose
Reannounced from Spring 2016. Backorders Cancelled.
A History of Travel in 50 Vehicles
Paula Grey
Paula Grey explores how creative thinkers—sometimes collaborating, sometimes
competing, and always building on the work of their predecessors—have envisioned new ways to move about in the world. From the first foot migration out
of Africa to the Model T Ford, hot air balloons, submarines, rickshaws, and moon
rockets, humans have combined imagination, daring, and scientific and technical
knowledge to improve existing vehicles or create new ones. Geography, culture,
and available technologies have all influenced the development and use of vehicles in different parts of the world, and human travel has, in turn, often had a profound influence on society and the environment.
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Hardcover • $24.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-399-1
Paperback with flaps • $16.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-491-2
ebook ISBN 978-0-88448-398-4
6½ x 9½ • 288 pages • Color throughout
Ages 12 and up
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Paula Grey is a former grant writer, software technical
writer, and technical editor. She has written a variety of
short fiction and nonfiction, and this is her first published
work. Paula enjoys traveling by land, sea, or air whenever
she gets the opportunity.
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A History of
Civilization in 50 Disasters
Gale Eaton
Gale Eaton weaves tales of the disasters that happen when civilization and nature
collide. Volcanoes, wildfires, floods, storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, and pandemics have devastated humanity for thousands of years, and human improvements
such as molasses holding tanks, insecticides, and deepwater oil rigs have created
new, unforeseen hazards. This book’s white-knuckled journey from antiquity to
the present leads us to wonder at times how humankind has survived, yet civilization has advanced not just in spite of these disasters but in part because of them.
Hats off to human resilience, ingenuity, and perseverance!
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A fascinating volume.
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Hardcover • $24.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-383-0
Paperback with flaps • $16.95
ISBN 978-088448-489-9
ebook ISBN 978-0-88448-407-3
6 x 9 • 240 pages • Color throughout
Ages 12 and up
Reannounced from Spring 2016. Backorders Cancelled.
A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes
Gale Eaton
What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, the Keely Motor Company, and the Cottingley Fairies have in common? They were all famous hoaxes—lies, carefully
designed and bolstered with false evidence. The hoaxsters in this book harbored a
variety of ambitions: making money, winning World War II, or mocking parents and
other authorities. Ideas about what to fake and how to fake it trend with the times.
But as P.T. Barnum knew, you can short-circuit critical thinking in any century by telling people what they want to hear. As captured by Gale Eaton’s exuberant sleuthing
and nonfiction artistry, the history of scam artists is both entertaining and revealing, a unique and telling lens through which to view human progress.
Gale Eaton has spent a lifetime with books for children and
young adults, first as a children’s librarian at the Boston Public
Library and the Berkshire Athenaeum, and later as a professor of
children’s literature at the University of Rhode Island Graduate
School of Library and Information Studies. She is the author of
three other books including A History of Civilization
in 50 Disasters.
AUGUST
Hardcover • $24.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-465-3
Paperback with flaps • $16.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-492-9
ebook ISBN 978-0-88448-493-6
6½ x 9½ • 288 pages • Color throughout
Ages 12 and up
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The Soda Bottle School
Laura Kutner and Suzanne Slade
Illustrated by Aileen Darragh
RIF Multicultural Collection • Skipping Stones Honor Book
In a Guatemalan village, students squished into their tiny schoolhouse, two
grades to a classroom. The villagers had tried expanding the school, but the
money ran out before the project was finished. No money meant no materials,
and that meant no more room for the students. Then one person got a wonderful, crazy idea: Why not use soda bottles, which were readily available, to form
the cores of the walls? Sometimes thinking outside the box—or inside the bottle—leads to the perfect solution.
Suzanne Slade is the award-winning author of more than one hundred nonfiction books for children. Laura Kutner is the real-life “Seño Laura” in The Soda
Bottle School. Aileen Darragh’s other children’s books include Give a Goat.
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Recommended.
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This true story celebrates both the value of
teamwork and a triumph of ingenious recycling.
—Bulletin of the Center
for Children’s Books
AUGUST
Paperback • $8.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-372-4
Hardcover • $16.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-371-7
eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-373-1
9 x 10 • 32 pages, color illustrations
Ages 6 –12; 620L
The Eye of the Whale
Written and Illustrated by Jennifer
A TILBURY HOUSE NATURE BOOK
O’Connell
NEW IN
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Green Earth Book Award • Moonbeam Gold Award (Non-Fiction)
Maryland Blue Crab Honor Award • Society of School Librarians International Honor Award
On a cool December morning near San Francisco, a distress call was radioed to shore by a local
fisherman. He had discovered a humpback whale tangled in hundreds of yards of crab-trap
lines, struggling to stay afloat so that she could breathe. A team of volunteers answered the
call, and four divers risked their lives to rescue the enormous animal. What followed was amazing. This celebrated story, beautifully depicted in Jennifer O’Connell’s mesmerizing paintings,
will make you wonder about animal emotions and the unique connections we can have with
other animals—even whales.
Paperback: $8.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-395-3
Hardcover: $16.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-335-9
eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-344-1
9 x 10 • 32 pages,
color illustrations • Ages 6-11
Jennifer O’Connell is the bestselling author and illustrator of the picture book Ten Timid
Ghosts. She is the author of It’s Halloween Night! and the illustrator of A Garden of Whales, among
others. A two-time recipient of the Christopher Award, Jennifer also creates illustrations for
book covers and magazines.
“With this story that amazes while it informs, readers cannot help but be touched.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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The Secret Pool
Kimberly Ridley
Illustrated by Rebekah Raye
A TILBURY HOUSE NATURE BOOK
Lupine Award • John Burroughs Association Riverby Award
Skipping Stones Honor Award
You might walk right by a vernal pool and not notice it. Often mistaken for mere
puddles in the woods, vernal pools are the source of life for many interesting creatures. These secret pools form every year when low places on the forest floor fill
up with rain and melted snow. They soon become home to hatching wood frogs,
spotted salamanders, and fairy shrimp. Even in late summer and fall, creatures
such as turtles and snakes rely on these places for shelter and food.
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Kimberly Ridley and Rebekah Raye are the award-winning author and illustrator, respectively, of The Secret Bay and other books.
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This engaging look at a habitat not often covered in science curricula and
popular nonfiction series strikes a harmonious balance of conversational
language, factual text, and informative illustrations. An excellent guide.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Paperback: $8.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-494-3
Hardcover: $16.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-339-7
eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-362-5
9 x 10 • 32 pages, color illustrations
Ages 6-11
THE SECRET BAY
Kim Ridley
Illustrated by Rebekah Raye
A TILBURY HOUSE NATURE BOOK
Moonbeam Silver Award • John Burroughs Association Riverby Award 2016
Estuaries form where river meets sea and fresh water mixes with salt. Teeming with life, these places of salt marshes, mudflats, and tidal backwaters serve
as nursery areas for oceangoing fish, migratory stopovers for shorebirds, and
homes for an amazing diversity of snails, bivalves, fish, mammals, horseshoe
crabs, fiddler and blue crabs, terrapin turtles, plankton, and many others, all of
whom we meet in the pages of this delightful book.
Kimberly Ridley (Brooklin, ME) is a science writer and editor whose articles and essays
have appeared in the Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other print
and online ventures. Her books include the multi-award winning The Secret Pool. Rebekah
Raye (Blue Hill, ME) is beloved for her bird and animal paintings and sculpture. In addition
to The Secret Pool, her picture books include Thanks to the Animals, Swimming Home, and
The Very Best Bed, which she wrote as well as illustrated.
“A charming introduction to one of
earth’s most important ecosystems.”
—Sneed B. Collard III, author of
A Platypus, Probably and Fire Birds
Hardcover • $17.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-433-2
eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-434-9
9 x 10 • 40 pages, color illustrations
Ages 6–11
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PASS THE PANDOWDY, PLEASE
Chewing on History with Famous Folks and Their Fabulous Foods
Abigail Ewing Zelz
Illustrated by Eric Zelz
What do Napoleon, Cleopatra, George Washington, Gandhi, Queen Victoria, Columbus, Neil Armstrong, Montezuma, Paul Revere, Babe Ruth,
Abraham Lincoln, Sacagawea, and Katsushika Hokusai have in common?
They are all among the historical figures portrayed in this delightful book
by writer Abby Ewing Zelz and cartoonist Eric Zelz. Just like us, the great
movers and shakers of history had to eat, and their favorite foods turn
out to be a highly entertaining thread to follow through the history of
our small planet. History and biography have never been this tasty!
Abigail and Eric Zelz and their daughter Charlotte enjoy history, food, and travel. Eric has worked
as an illustrator and designer with newspapers
and education for many years. Abby has worked
as a curator and educator in history museums and
has contributed to historical and educational publications. This is their first children’s book.
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SEPTEMBER
Hardcover • $17.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-468-4
10 x 9 • 40 pages, color illustrations
Ages 7–11
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MELENA’S JUBILEE
Zetta Elliott
Illustrated by Aaron Boyd
After being sent to bed early the previous night, Melena wakes up to a
new day with a song in her heart. At breakfast she learns she has been
given a “fresh start,” and she decides to celebrate by doing things differently for the rest of the day. Melena chooses not to fight with her
brother, and shares the money she has rather than demanding to be
repaid by a less fortunate friend. This story introduces children to the
concept of jubilee, which stresses the important principles of debt
relief, generosity, and forgiveness. Aaron Boyd’s mixed-media illustrations are as bright and vivid as a sun-washed day.
OCTOBER
Hardcover • $16.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-443-1
9 x 10 • 32 pages, color illustrations
Ages 4–10
Born in Canada, Zetta Elliott (Brooklyn, NY)
moved to the US in 1994 to pursue her PhD in
American Studies at NYU. Her poetry has been
published in several anthologies, and her plays
have been staged in New York, Chicago, and
Cleveland. Her essays have appeared in The
Huffington Post, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. She is the author of more than
twenty books for young readers, including the award-winning picture
book Bird. Her urban fantasy novel Ship of Souls was named a Booklist
Top Ten Sci-fi/Fantasy Title for Youth. Three books published under her
own imprint, Rosetta Press, have been named Best Children’s Books of
the Year by the Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature. Elliott is an
advocate for greater diversity and equity in publishing.
Aaron Boyd (Milwaukee, WI) is the illustrator of 25 children’s books including Luigi and the Barefoot Races,
Babu’s Song, Daddy Goes to Work, and the Panda Goes to School series. His pop-up Storybook Year won a Clio
Top 4 award and was inducted into the Smithsonian Rare Books collection. He has also received Children’s
Africana Book, Choices Sports, Notable Children’s Book, and Hermes Creative awards, and his advertising
graphics have received Addy Gold and Graphis awards.
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REAL SISTERS PRETEND
Megan Dowd Lambert
Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell
This warm, engaging story, which unfolds entirely through the conversation of two
adopted sisters, was inspired by the author’s own daughters, whom she overheard
talking about how adoption made them “real sisters” even though they have different birth parents and do not look alike. “I liked how they took care of one another in
their pretend-play scenario about climbing a mountain,” Lambert says, “and I loved
how they also took care of one another’s feelings as they talked about adoption.”
Real Sisters Pretend captures these interactions perfectly and movingly.
MEGAN DOWN LAMBERT teaches in the graduate programs in Children’s Literature at Simmons College. Her books include A Crow of His Own and Reading Picture
Books with Children. NICOLE TADGELL’s award-winning children’s books include First
Peas to the Table, In the Garden with Dr. Carver, and Fatuma’s New Cloth.
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Where was Real Sisters Pretend when I was growing up as an adoptee? A musthave picture book, especially in today’s world of varying family structures.
—Chris Soentpiet, illustrator of Jin Woo, Amazing Faces,
My Brother Martin, and other books for young readers
IF YOU ARE A KAKA,
YOU EAT DOO DOO
And Other Poop Tales from Nature
Hardcover • $16.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-441-7
eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-497-4
9 x 10 • 32 pages, color illustrations
Ages 4–10
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Sara Martel
Illustrated by Sara Lynn Cramb
Wombat poos are box-shaped to stay where they’re deposited and serve as messages to
other animals. Baby golden tortoise beetles pile poop on their backs to create a shield as
protection from predators. Silver-spotted skipper caterpillars can shoot their poops 40 times
their own body length to conceal their true locations. Baby hoopoes squirt their poops into
the eyes of attackers—and who wants feces in their faces? Baby Ozark blind cave salamanders use gray bat guano for food.
The bottom (!!) line: Ever-inventive Nature finds a thousand uses for poop. Nothing goes
to waste (!!). This book is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser with a lot of information to share.
eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-498-1
9 x 10 • 36 pages, color illustrations
Ages 6–11
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SARA MARTEL was a zookeeper at the St. Louis Zoo for 11 years and writes about wildlife
conservation efforts. SARA LYNN CRAMB’s children’s book illustrations include 50 Things You
Should Know About the Human Body and Smithsonian Young Explorers Fact Book and Puzzle.
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Doo-doo rush out to get copies;
these will shoot off the shelves.
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Hardcover • $17.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-488-2
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Perfect books for
Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Before We Eat
From Farm to Table
Pat Brisson
Illustrated by Mary Azarian
Moonbeam Gold Award • Growing Good Kids Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature, American Horticultural Society and National Junior Master Gardener Program
Milk doesn’t just appear in your refrigerator, nor do apples grow in the bowl on the
kitchen counter. Before we eat, many people work very hard—planting grain, catching fish, tending animals, filling crates, and stocking shelves. In this vibrantly illustrated book, readers find out what must happen before food can get to our tables to
nourish our bodies and spirits.
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Mary Azarian is the Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator of Snowflake Bentley.
eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-401-1
9 x 10 • 32 pages, color woodcuts
Ages 4–8; 740L
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An irresistible tapestry.
—Washington Post
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Sumptuous.
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Hardcover • $16.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-352-6
—Horn Book Guide
ONE MAINE CHRISTMAS EVE
Written and illustrated by
Douglas Coffin
Christmas hangs in the balance when Santa’s reindeer take sick, but fortunately
his emergency landing is in a Maine farmyard where Miss Moody and her boarders Millie and Emery, masters of good old Yankee making do, come to his rescue. In this down-on-the-farm homage to “The Night Before Christmas,” they get
Santa airborne again, his sleigh pulled by a motley crew of stand-ins like none
you’ve ever dreamed of.
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A delightful variation on the Santa Claus
legend, in which not Rudolph but a whole
gaggle of critters save the day, or rather the eve,
a.k.a. ‘The Night before Christmas.’
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—Dahlov Ipcar
Hardcover • $16.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-469-1
eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-473-8
9 x 10 • 32 pages, color illustrations
All ages
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General Nonfiction • Literature and the Arts
Maritime • New England Living
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SEA STRUCK
W.H. Bunting
Foreword by Llewellyn Howland III
John Lyman Award • North American Society for Oceanic History
John Gardner Maritime Research Award
For young men more than a century ago, “going to sea” was as much a rite of passage as making a grand tour of Europe. Sea Struck brings alive the final decades of
square-rigged sail through the accounts of voyages made on three ships by three
young men from Massachusetts. There is plenty of adventure here— storms, men
overboard, discipline that bordered on brutality, and exotic ports. There is also a fascinating immersion in the lore of the sea and sail and the global web of connections
in the New England maritime community.
AUGUST
Paperback • $21.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-526-1
Hardcover • $30.00
ISBN 978-0-88448-265-9
7 x 10 • 384 pages, photographs
Maritime History
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W. H. “BILL” BUNTING shipped as galley boy aboard the brigantine Yankee at age 13
and later completed a 25,000-mile world voyage as first mate of a 132-foot barkentine. His books include Maine on Glass (see page 12).
“This marvelous book should be
hailed as an instant classic.”
—David McCullough, two-time
winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the
National Book Award
“A fine chronicle of New England’s passion for the sea.”
—Boston Sunday Globe
“Bunting writes sentences of stunning gracefulness.”
—WoodenBoat
E.B. WHITE ON DOGS
Edited by Martha White
America’s favorite essayist on man’s best friend. • 15,000 hardcover copies sold
E. B. White (1899–1985)—author of Charlotte’s Web and The Elements of Style—became
America’s most accomplished and revered essayist in his more than half a century as a
columnist for The New Yorker. In E. B. White on Dogs, his granddaughter Martha White has
compiled the best and funniest of his essays, poems, letters, and sketches depicting more
than a dozen of White’s canine companions. Previously unpublished photographs from
the E. B. White estate show family dogs from the first collie to labs, Scotties, dachshunds,
half-breeds, and mutts, all well loved. This is a book for readers and writers who recognize
a good sentence and a masterful turn of phrase, and for dog-lovers who may not have
discovered the wit, style, and compassion of this most distinguished of American essayists.
“Impossible to resist!”
“What a wonderful gift.”
— Joe Coomer, author, The Loop, Pocketful — Joe Coomer, author, The Loop, Pocketful
of Names, and Apologizing to Dogs
of Names, and Apologizing to Dogs
“Will charm and enlighten a new generation of dog-lovers.”
—The Bark
Paperback with flaps • $16.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-342-7
5½ x 8 ½ • 208 pages, B&W photographs
Nonfiction/Essays/Pets
Also available:
Hardcover • $22.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-341-0
eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-346-5
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MAINE ON GLASS
The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography
W. H. Bunting, Kevin Johnson, and
Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
Nineteenth-century Maine—famed for its lumbering, shipbuilding, and
seafaring—has attracted copious attention from historians, but early
twentieth-century Maine has not. Maine on Glass redresses this imbalance with 190 postcard photos and three of Maine’s foremost historians.
Postcards were the Instagrams of the early twentieth century. On
one day in September 1906, 200,000 postcards were mailed from Coney
Island. In 1913 some 968,000,000 postcards were sent in the U.S., more
than seven per person. The majority of postcards made at the turn of the
twentieth century were mass-produced lithograph or letter-press halftones, but the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company produced “real
photo postcards” in the form of silver gelatin prints made by exposing
the negative onto photo paper card stock and developing it in a traditional wet darkroom. Eastern was the largest U.S. manufacturer of what
it called “genuine” photo postcards.
The images in this book were selected from 22,000 glass plate negatives created by the Eastern company between 1909 and World War II. As
an archive of early twentieth-century Maine architectural photography,
the Eastern collection (now housed at the Penobscot Marine Museum)
has no equal, and it gives us many unexpected glimpses of Maine life.
Maine residents, expatriates, and visitors will enjoy hours of pleasure
in this meandering journey through Maine’s countryside, villages, and
towns, guided by three historians who can bring a vista to life with a few
well-chosen comments.
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ISBN 978-0-88448-378-6
8 x 10 • 224 pages, 190 duotone photos
New England
W. H. “Bill” Bunting is the author of Boston: Portrait of a Port 1852-1914; A Day’s Work in two volumes; An Eye for the
Coast; The Camera’s Coast; Live Yankees; and Sea Struck and has been called “the best of Maine writers and scholars.”
Kevin Johnson is the photo archivist for the Penobscot Marine Museum. Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. was
appointed to the first board of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission in 1971 and has served as director of
the commission since 1976 and as Maine State Historian since 2004.
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HOW TO AUDITION ON CAMERA
A Hollywood Insider’s Guide for Actors
Sharon Bialy
Foreword by Bryan Cranston, Emmy Award – winning actor, Breaking Bad
SEPTEMBER
Paperback • $14.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-525-4
5.5 x 8.5 • 112 pages
Creative Arts
“While acting is an art, auditioning is a
craft—and Sharon knows this world six ways
to Sunday. Her book brims with no-nonsense
advice and tough love.”
—Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad
“I wish I’d had this advice when I started out.”
—Bryan Cranston, Emmy Awardwinning actor, Breaking Bad
“Any actor will profit from Sharon Bialy’s
advice, and, should they bring this book to any
audition she and I are running, will surely get
not only our attention, but our respect.”
—David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize – winning
playwright, Glengarry Glen Ross
To win a role in a movie or on network or cable TV, you must make a
strong first impression in your brief, crucial audition—and the first person you have to impress is the casting director. In How to Audition On
Camera, Casting Director Sharon Bialy answers the twenty-five questions actors ask most frequently about how to nail an audition. What
is the casting director looking for? If you mess up, can you start over?
What is the most common mistake experienced actors make? Should
you audition off book or can you look at the page? Should you dress
in character? How much can you improvise? Actors—both novice and
professional—are often misled by myths and outdated prescriptions.
This guide replaces such misinformation with concise and accurate
advice from someone who is in the room helping to make the decision
on who gets the job. Bialy gets readers started immediately on the road
to screen acting success.
Sharon Bialy is an award-winning casting director for television, film, and theater. Her television
credits include The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul,
Halt and Catch Fire, Breaking Bad, Gotham, Phil
Spector, The Unit, Jericho, Mind of the Married Man,
and Picket Fences. Her film credits include Secret in
Their Eyes (with Julia Roberts, Chiwetel Ejiofor and
Nicole Kidman), Drugstore Cowboy, Point Break,
Rudy, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Reign O’er Me, and Red Belt for David Mamet.
Bialy’s love for theater has been a recurring theme throughout her career.
She recently cast China Doll with Al Pacino, and she worked with Des
McAnuff at the La Jolla Playhouse for 15 years and various productions
at Lincoln Center, The Old Globe, South Coast Rep, and The Guthrie. Her
Broadway credits include The Anarchist, Jersey Boys, Race, and The Farnsworth Invention. She has received 15 Artios Award nominations and an
Emmy nomination (for Breaking Bad’s final season) and is a board member
of the Casting Society of America.
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TILBURY HOUSE
NEW
FALL
2016
THE LIFE IN YOUR GARDEN
Gardening for Biodiversity
Reeser Manley and Marjorie Peronto
Let wildness into your garden • Nurture bird and animal life • Encourage
insect diversity for gardening success • Create a biorefuge with annuals,
perennials, and native trees and shrubs • A book for all of North America.
Gardeners can play a significant role in helping to sustain native plant
diversity and providing refuge for threatened species of insects and
sanctuary for birds, amphibians, reptiles, and small mammals. Horticulture experts Reeser Manley and Marjorie Peronto share their own experiences in gardening for biodiversity, placing a strong emphasis on insect
diversity as a bellwether of success. Insects comprise 60 percent of Earth’s
biodiversity, and they deserve to be recognized as the creatures that run
our gardens. It is not the gardener’s job to eliminate insects that munch
on leaves, suck the sap from stems, bore holes in fruits, or graze on roots.
This is the work of predatory insects and arachnids such as ladybug beetles, hoverfly larvae, praying mantises, certain wasps, and spiders. It is the
gardener’s task to cultivate populations of these predators.
The Life in Your Garden also describes the functional plants of a garden (with recommendations for understory trees and shrubs throughout
North America) and their relationship with garden life, introducing the
concept of a “garden insectary.”
That a gardener can be an important steward for our planet is a powerful concept, and here at last is the book that shows us how.
OCTOBER
Hardcover • $34.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-472-1
8 x 10 • 320 pages
150 color photos and illustrations
Gardening
Also by these authors:
THE NEW ENGLAND
GARDENER’S YEAR
Reeser Manley holds a Ph.D. in Horticultural Science and has gardened for many years in Massachusetts and Maine, and before that in South Carolina
and Washington state. Marjorie Peronto is a University of Maine professor with 20 years’ experience
teaching courses in ornamental gardening, ecological landscaping, and home food production. She trains Master Gardener
Volunteers to conduct community outreach projects that promote sustainable gardening and food security.
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A Month-by-Month Guide
for Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and
Upstate New York
Hardcover • $34.95 • ISBN 978-1-937644-14-7
eBook ISBN 978-1-937644-18-5 • 8 x 10 • 320 pages,
color throughout • Gardening / New England
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
THE LEMONADE HURRICANE
A Story of Mindfulness and Meditation
Licia Morelli
Illustrated by Jennifer E. Morris
This lovely introduction to mindfulness for kids is
wrapped in a captivating story and illustrated with
delightful whimsy.
Hardcover • $16.95 • ISBN 978-0-88448-396-0
eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-457-8 • 9 x 10 • 32 pages, color
illustrations • Ages 4–8
“Perfect for any parents who want to give their kids a lifelong
habit of strength, peace and compassion.”
—Marie Forleo, founder of MarieTV and MarieForleo.com
TALKING WALLS
Discover Your World
Margy Burns Knight
Illustrated by Anne Sibley O’Brien
Mom’s Choice Gold • Top 25 Non-Fiction
Children’s Books: Boston Globe • Children’s
Books of Distinction: Hungry Mind Review
• Noteworthy Book from Parallel Cultures:
Horn Book • Notable Children’s Trade Book in
the Social Studies: CBC/NCSS
Human history, geography, and diverse cultures become immediate and real in this tour of walls around the world,
from the Vietnam Memorial to the Great Wall of China. This book and its
predecessors, Talking Walls (1992) and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue
(1996), have sold 175,000 copies.
THANKS TO THE ANIMALS
Allen Sockabasin
Illustrated by Rebekah Raye
Selected for the Top 10 Native American Books
for Elementary Schools by American Indians in
Children’s Literature
Little Zoo Sap and his family are moving from
their summer home on the coast to their winter
home in the deep woods. Unnoticed, the youngster tumbles off the end of the sled. Alone,
cold, and frightened, Zoo Sap cries, and his
cries attract the forest animals. Beginning with
beaver and ending with the great bald eagle, the animals rush to protect the
baby and shelter him from the cold until his father returns.
Hardcover • $17.95 • ISBN 978-0-88448-414-1 • eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-417-2
9 x 10 • 36 pages, color illustrations • Ages 6–11 • 700L • Native American
“Sockabasin weaves a powerful story of paternal love while simultaneously expressing
the mutual respect between his Passamaquoddy culture and the natural world.”
—School Library Journal
LAILAH’S LUNCHBOX
A Ramadan Story
Reem Faruqi
Hardcover • $18.95 • ISBN 978-0-88448-356-4 • eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-363-2
9 x 10 • 64 pages, color illustrations • Ages 8–12
“A powerful theme for introducing children to the world and its diverse cultures.”
—Booklist starred review
SAY SOMETHING
Peggy Moss
Illustrated by Lea Lyon
75,000 COPIES SOLD
Best Children’s Book of the Year, Bank Street College of Education • Notable Social Studies Trade
Book for Young People, NCSS/CBC • Teacher’s
Choice, International Reading Association
When one girl realizes that being a silent
bystander isn’t enough, will she have the courage to stand up to the bullies in her school? This book has sparked Say
Something weeks in schools from Maine to Shanghai. It has been turned
into plays, distributed to hundreds of kids at conferences, and has helped
start countless conversations about teasing.
Hardcover • $16.95 • ISBN 978-0-88448-261-1 • Paperback • $7.95
ISBN 978-0-88448-360-1 • eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-361-8 • 9 x 10 • 32 pages,
color illustrations • Ages 7–12
“An anchor text for bullying prevention campaigns around the country.”
—Books That Heal
Illustrated by Lea Lyon
ALA Notable Children’s Book 2015 • Notable
Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
2016, National Council for the Social Studies /
Children’s Book Council • Featured Book of the
Month, Anti-Defamation League
Lailah is in a new school in a new country and
missing her old friends. When Ramadan begins,
she is excited that she is finally old enough to participate in the fasting but
worried that her classmates won’t understand why she doesn’t join them in the
lunchroom. Lailah solves her problem with help from the school librarian and
her teacher and in doing so learns that she can make new friends who respect
her beliefs.
Hardcover • $16.95 • ISBN 978-0-88448-431-8 • eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-432-5
9 x 10 • 32 pages, color illustrations • Ages 6–12; 700L
“This gentle, moving story comes to life in Lea Lyon’s vibrant illustrations.”
—Multiculturalism Rocks: Cultural Diversity in Children’s Literature
THE SECRET GALAXY
Fran Hodgkins
Photographs by Mike Taylor
Junior Library Guild Selection • Bank Street College
Best Book of the Year • Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s
Book Gold Award, California Reading Association
Illustrated with remarkable photographs by a noted
astrophotographer and by NASA, The Secret Galaxy
tells the story of the Milky Way in the galaxy’s own
voice. The poetic main text makes this an ideal
choice for reading aloud, while older readers will
glean startling knowledge from the fact-filled sidebars.
Hardcover • $16.95 • ISBN 978-0-88448-391-5 • eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-403-5
9 x 10 • 32 pages, color photographs and illustrations • Ages 6–11; 910L
“Highly recommended.”
—Seymour Simon, recipient of the AAAS/Subaru Lifetime Achievement Award for
his contribution to children’s science literature
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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND
The Poet’s Portable Workshop
Steve Kowit
90,000 copies sold
A GENIUS AT HIS TRADE
C. Raymond Hunt and His Remarkable Boats
Stan Grayson
Foreword by Llewellyn Howland III
Long an anchor text for college poetry
classes, this is an illuminating and invaluable guide for beginning poets and an
ever-valuable reference for more advanced
students who want to sharpen their craft,
expand their technical skills, and engage
their deepest memories and concerns.
Published with the New Bedford Whaling Museum
C. Raymond Hunt designed some of the most
popular boats ever created, including the classic
Concordia yawls and sloops, the Boston Whaler, the
pioneering 1960 Miami-Nassau race-winner Moppie,
and the production Bertram 25 and 31 Sportfishermen, among others. His deep-V hull revolutionized
powerboat speed and seaworthiness.
Paperback • $16.95 • ISBN 978-0-88448-149-2 • 6 x 9
288 pages • Writing / Poetry
“A gift from a gifted and inspiring teacher, a way in to the world of poetry,
written by an enlightened guide who knows that world and loves it.”
—from the Foreword by Dorianne Laux
Hardcover • $49.95 • ISBN 978-0-88448-462-2 • 10 x 12 • 304 pages, 150 duotone
photos and drawings • Sports/Boating/Biography
“Impressively well written, as inherently fascinating as it is
informed and informative. Very highly recommended.”
—The Midwest Book Review
ONE MAN’S MEAT
E.B. White
50,000 copies sold in this Tilbury House edition
E. B. White hit his stride as an American literary
icon when he left New York City and began publishing his “One Man’s Meat” columns in Harper’s
from his saltwater farm on the coast of Maine.
His observations on town meetings, poultry, the
weather, songbirds, compost, taxes, war, winter,
and much more will resonate just as strongly
today—to anyone attuned to New England
life—as they did more than a half century ago.
Paperback • $16.95 • ISBN 978-0-88448-192-8 • 6 x 9 • 296 pages • Nonfiction/Essays
THE STORY I WANT TO TELL
Explorations in the Art of Writing
The Telling Room
20 stories, poems, and essays by bestselling
writers paired with 20 pieces by aspiring
writers • 40+ pages of interviews, writing
prompts, and tools for classroom use
Ideal for secondary-school writing classes
and for aspiring writers of all ages, The Story
I Want to Tell pairs the work of 20 aspiring
young writers—including immigrants from
war-ravaged countries—with original stories, essays, and poems from Richard Blanco,
Richard Russo, Elizabeth Gilbert, Dave Eggers, Lily King, Jonathan
Lethem, Bill Roorbach, Monica Wood, and other top writers in a calland-response anthology. The book’s supplemental materials make it a
perfect tool for writers’ groups and writing teachers.
Paperback • $16.95 • ISBN 978-0-88448-415-8 • eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-422-6
6 x 9 • 192 pages • Writing/Literature
“A powerful and riveting anthology.”
—Kate Christensen, winner, PEN/Faulkner Award
“A countryman’s lessons that conveys, at each reading, a
sense of early morning clarity and possibility.”
—Roger Angell, The New Yorker
READING RURAL LANDSCAPES
A Field Guide to New England’s Past
Robert Sanford
BE UNSTOPPABLE
The 8 Essential Actions to Succeed at Anything
Alden M. Mills
25,000 copies sold in three languages
However the past has shaped you, your future
is yours to shape. Using a charming parable of a
floundering young tugboat skipper to illuminate
the eight necessary steps for success, Be Unstoppable is a unique hybrid of Who Moved My
Cheese and Vince Lombardi–style coaching.
Hardcover • $22.95 • ISBN 978-1-937644-20-8 • eBook ISBN 978-1-937644-22-2
5½ x 8½ • 160 pages • Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success
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The past is everywhere in rural New England.
The traces are hidden throughout the landscape if we know what to look for and how to
interpret what we see. A patch of neglected
daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead.
A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps
and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows
us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest.
Although slumping back into the land, these
features speak to us if we can hear them—and
they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites.
Paperback • $19.95 • ISBN 978-0-88448-366-3 • eBook ISBN 978-0-88448-420-2
5½ x 8½ • 256 pages (100 B&W illustrations; 16 pages of color photos)
Field Guide/New England History
“A superb read and a solid guide.”
—Portland Press Herald
COMING WINTER 2017
BOAT OF DREAMS
Rogério Coelho
How does a fastidious old man with bowler, umbrella, suspenders, and a Salvador Dali mustache
come to live on a deserted island? How does a boy come to live alone in an apparently deserted city?
Are they separated only by distance, or also by time? The intricately detailed illustrations in this wordless, many-layered picture book reveal new wonders with each viewing. Neither children nor adults
will ever tire of this wonderful testament to imagination, memory, and dreams.
MY BUSY GREEN GARDEN
Terry Pierce
Illustrated by Carol Schwartz
There’s a surprise
In clever disguise,
That hangs in my busy green garden.
So begins this lyrical introduction for 4- to 6-year-olds to the bugs, bees, and
birds that make the garden such a busy place. With each two-page spread
more visitors appear, and all the while the surprise alluded to on the first
page—a chrysalis—changes unnoticed until, on the last page, a butterfly
emerges and flies away across the garden’s well-tended borders.
A History of Medicine in 50 Discoveries
Marguerite Vigliani, MD and Gale Eaton
The 5,000-year-old Iceman mummy discovered in the Alps died with a pouch of herbal
remedies on his belt, and the history of medicine is even older than that. As revealed
by the 50 highlights in this newest addition to our HISTORY IN 50 series, what a strange,
amazing journey it has been! Ages 12 and up.
creating worlds between covers
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