The Elliott Bay Book Company

Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A few years after a captivating Central Library appearance for his best-selling book, Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire, award-winning teacher and author Rafe Esquith returns to discuss his newest book, Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-Up, Muddled-Up, Shook-Up World (new in paper, Penguin). Summer break time it may be, but the lessons in this book are good for the whole year, and for years to come. Using a field trip to Dodger Stadium as a literary 'frame,' Rafe Esquith expounds on areas of character and behavior such as focus, decision-making, humility, patience, and more. "The most interesting and influential classroom teacher in the country." – The Washington Post. "Rafe Esquith is a genius and a saint. The American education system would do well to imitate him." – The New York Times. A teacher at Los Angeles' Hobarth Elementary for twenty-four years, Rafe Esquith is the only teacher who has been awarded the President's National Medal of the Arts. Free admission is on a first-come, basis. Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). $5 parking is available in the Central Library garage on a limited basis for those attending the program. For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636, or see www.spl.org.

Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World (Hardcover)

By Rafe Esquith

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780670021086
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Viking Adult, 8/2009

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