Inspiring a Passion for Reading and Learning
IRW was pleased to assist bringing students in grades 3-5 from Isle au Haut and Monhegan islands virtually together with Maine author and illustrator, Melissa Sweet. The kids had read Melissa’s illustrated biography of E.B. White, Some Writer, as well as White’s classic Stuart Little as part of an inter-island book group coordinated by Robin […]
Maine writer Ellen Potter recently traveled to three outer islands with Island Readers & Writers aboard the Maine Seacoast Mission’s 75 ft. Sunbeam V. Ellen’s latest series, Piper Green and the Fairy Tree, is themed around young kids who live on an island and are ferried to school by lobster boat. What better way to […]
IRW has two awesome partnerships to announce – and they’re both involved in one brand-new Fall 2015 project! IRW has brought on board a new author partner, warmly welcoming Ellen Potter to our ever-growing roster of talented authors/illustrators. Ellen has authored over a dozen books and her latest chapter books, Piper Green and the Fairy […]
Students, teachers, and parent chaperones from Maine’s outer islands gathered in Rockland at Island Institute’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative where IRW hosted author Mary Cerullo and her colorful book, “City Fish, Country Fish.” Students were already knowledgable about some of the marine biology facts and photos that Mary shared in the all-group presentation, and were […]
