Award winner!

Emily, official younger daughter of NewMexiKen, and the mother of two of The Sweeties, shared in the Golden Lamp Award last evening with her company, Teacher Created Materials. According to the Association of Educational Publishers, which presented the award, “The Golden Lamp is the most prestigious award within the field of educational publishing. Publishing professionals, educators, and librarians recognize winners as providing the most outstanding materials for learning….The judges look for materials that surpass others in the areas of editorial, design, and content integration. In addition, they should clearly meet their mission statement’s objectives and goals.”

Emily was the project manager (developed the idea, selected authors, is overall series editor and even wrote two of the books herself) for the Primary Source Readers, the “Instructional Materials” award winner (“…designed for use in the classroom”). So far there are two kits — Primary Source Readers: Early America and Primary Source Readers: Expanding & Preserving the Union — each provides enriched content to complement social studies and language arts curricula in grades 4 through 8. Among the 32 titles in the two kits are “Causes of the Revolution,” Abigail Adams,” “Thomas Jefferson,” “Lewis & Clark,” “James Madison,” “Harriet Tubman,” “Pioneer Trails,” “Sitting Bull.”

This is a bit of a family affair — Jill, official older daughter of NewMexiKen, authored eight of the 32 books and assisted on four others.