Contact: Maria Nicotra, Operations Manager

Gingerbread House
602 Montauk Highway
Westhampton Beach, NY 11978
USA

Telephone: 631-288-5119
Fax: 631-288-5179

Gingerbread House produces children's titles that fill real needs and possess enduring appeal. The 9 titles that we have released so far have won 21 awards. All of Gingerbread House's books have earned 100's of rave reviews from our most respected colleagues and the best review venues in the field, and have been translated into several languages around the world. Gratefully, we have been able to maintain a firm commitment to keeping our books in continuous print, for the past 10 years.

Our featured show title, Show; Don't Tell! Secrets of Writing, is our current in-house best-seller, offering truly innovative and visionary strategies for improving writing. Employing an educationally sound and grammar-based approach, this book gives concrete ways to access writers' "voice." Show; Don't Tell! Secrets of Writing has won 6 awards, among them the Global Learning Initiative Award, a partnership of the Association of Educational Publishers, and The Bologna Children's Book Fair. It has also won the IRA/CBC "Children's Choice Award," an ABA BookSense "Pick of the Lists" citation, a Parents' Choice Award, a National Parenting Publications Award, and was a ForeWord Magazine "Book of the Year" Finalist. This title works not only for children,. of course, as witnessed by the fact that 7 other authors have dedicated their books to its author Josephine Nobisso, or have thanked her in their acknowledgments.

Show; Don't Tell! Secrets of Writing

Author: Josephine Nobisso

Illustrator: Eva Montanari

Category: Educational Non-Fiction

List Price: $24.95 (USD)

Binding: Hardcover w/ Ancillary Items

ISBN: 978-0-940112-13-1

Year of Publication: 2004

SHOW; DON'T TELL demonstrates the most authentic applications of nouns and adjectives, presenting educationally-sound strategies for accessing any writer's voice, whether he is writing fiction or non-fiction.

Gingerbread House's books are distributed by IPG, Independent Publishers Group, in Chicago, Illinois. Contact the publisher directly, or IPG, with foreign right queries.

Please note: the Chinese rights (in simplified Chinese characters) for Show; Don't Tell! Secrets of Writing have already been acquired.