David Macaulay Hosts Live Webcast

By SLJ Staff -- School Library Journal, 9/15/2008

Hey David Macaulay fans—the MacArthur fellow and Caldecott medalist is hosting a live Webcast on October 7 at 10:00 a.m. EST, and you’re invited to participate.

Macaulay’s publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is asking teachers, librarians, booksellers, and reading groups to log on to this live Webcast to hear Macaulay talk to middle school students about his new book on the human body, The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body (available 10/07/2008).

The book, which can serve as a resource for kids, families, and teachers, shows how our individual systems—circulatory, respiratory, lymphatic, digestive, nervous, endocrine, immune, musculoskeletal, and reproductive—work together to make the human body function. It includes explanations on cell structure and the DNA that defines us, as well as the cells from a man and a woman that combine to create new life. Viewers can email questions for him to answer in real time. Macaulay will also discuss how he creates his books, his career, and other popular titles including The New Way Things Work, Mosque, Cathedral, and Black and White.