August 13, 2016
by Jonathan Tweet
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This October, Karen and I are going to launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund our new game, Clades. Click on the card back for a quick description.
In biology, a clade is an evolutionary family. In Clades players match animal cards according to their features, including which clades the animals belong to.
Every card features one, two, or three of Karen’s spirited animal drawings. The animals are arranged according to their evolutionary history.
—Jonathan
July 17, 2016
by Jonathan Tweet
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People who pre-order Grandmother Fish can provide their receipts to Macmillan and get bookplates signed by Karen and me to put in their books. Karen and I asked whether we could do something special for our supporters who pre-order copies, and the Macmillan folks set this program up for us. You can order from any site and still qualify. Here’s an image of what the stickers will look like. Karen and I are going to sign each one, and some folks may get stickers or thank-yous on their bookplates, as well as signatures cialis pas cher en france. The program is for customers in the US and Canada (other than Quebec and Puerto Rico).
You can pre-order from your favorite brick-and-mortar store.
We also have five online sites from which you can pre-order a copy of Grandmother Fish.
Pre-order on Amazon
Pre-order from Barnes & Noble
Pre-order from IndieBound, a community of independent local bookstores
Pre-order from Wal-Mart
Pre-order from other retailers
Once you have a receipt, upload a copy of it to this site, along with your address, to get your bookplate
The more people that pre-order Grandmother Fish, the bigger a splash the book will make in September. Please help spread the word.
—Jonathan
March 10, 2016
by Jonathan Tweet
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The limited edition books once for sale on our store are no longer available. The PDF edition is also no longer available. Please look forward with us to the release of Grandmother Fish (2nd edition) coming from Macmillan this fall. Thanks.
—Jonathan
January 14, 2016
by Jonathan Tweet
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A vice president at MacMillan, Jean Feiwel, is picking up Grandmother Fish for her personal imprint, Feiwel & Friends! They are releasing the second edition in the fall! It’s going to be big! Karen and I are ecstatic! People can pre-order the second edition right now.
Pre-order on Amazon
Pre-order from Barnes & Noble
Pre-order from IndieBound, a community of independent local bookstores
Pre-order from Wal-Mart
Pre-order from other retailers
—Jonathan
December 10, 2015
by Jonathan Tweet
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Here are people who helped make Karen and me make Grandmother Fish as good as it is. Our thanks go out to all of them.
Science Help: Eric Meikle, Adam Benton, Paul Braterman, Rob Furey, Brian Joughin, Margaret Mills, Yan Wong
Story Advice: Sora Battey, Jeromy French, Mischa D. Krilov, Rob Lightner, Jeff McCord, Matthew Sernett, Jenny Scott Tynes, John Tynes
Editing: Beverly Marshall Saling
Lay-out: Karen Lewis, with suggestions from John Tynes and ASH LAW
Technical and graphic support: Jeff McCord
December 7, 2015
by Jonathan Tweet
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Ada’s Technical Books in Seattle has sold out. Folks in Australia may be able to get copies from Dymocks Camberwell, and folks in Canada might be able to find copies at the Centre for Inquiry—Canada in Toronto.
The only books I still have in stock are some of the 100 signed and numbered copies from the first edition. To help more people get these books before the holidays, I’ve dropped their price from $100 to $50. Here’s the link to the Backerkit store.
Link to personal Backerkit store.
A second edition is in the works. Thanks for your interest in Grandmother Fish.
November 30, 2015
by Jonathan Tweet
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Ada’s Technical Books in Seattle has Grandmother Fish in stock, and they’re selling it online. Here is the direct link. Their supply is limited, so order now.
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Karen and I are happy to be working with a great brick-and-mortar store.
November 20, 2015
by Jonathan Tweet
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Grandmother Fish is the first book to teach evolution to preschoolers, as recently reviewed on NPR.org. We’re thrilled that our first edition has sold out on Amazon and is now available only at a few lucky stores.
Would you like to see your favorite bookstore on this list? We have one carton of Grandmother Fish left. If you know a bookstore that should carry Grandmother Fish, please have them contact me about ordering the last carton (contact form).
In addition, a small number of books that we had set aside are no longer spoken for, so we will release them on the Grandmother Fish store before Christmas (store). Join my email list to hear about these books when they are available (mailing list on hold).
Next we’re preparing for a second edition. Again, join the mailing list to learn more when there’s news about the second edition cialis livraison rapide pas cher. (Update: the mailing list is on hold, so please Like us on Facebook to keep up with news. Thanks.)
October 17, 2015
by Jonathan Tweet
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Many fans of Grandmother Fish have asked me whether Karen and I would do another kid-friendly, science-loving project on Kickstarter, and the answer is Yes! In January, we’ll launch a Kickstarter for “Clades,” an evolution-themed card game for kids and adults. In biology, a clade is an ancestral population and all the organisms descended from it. “Mammal,” for example, is the clade of all animals descended from the earliest mammals. To write Grandmother Fish, I had to learn about clades, and the concept excited me so much that I’ve created a game based on it. For years I’ve tried to figure out how I could do a game that gets evolution right, and in August an answer finally came to me. “Clades” is a smart card with a proven play style, and it’s easy to adjust for children or beginners.
Edit: Click here for a preview of card faces, and more about the Clades game and evolution games in general.
Cetaceans will appear in the Clades card game.
October 6, 2015
by Jonathan Tweet
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Amazon has over 100 copies, but as of Oct 30 they’re in transit between fulfillment centers. I’m am shipping them the last of the first edition, except for some cases held back for special purposes. I’m also looking for brick-and-mortar stores that would each like to order a case. If you know a great store that would like to carry the book, have them contact me: jonathan (at) grandmother fish (dot) com.
Grandmother Fish is the first book to teach evolution to preschoolers, and you can order it now.
Grandmother Fish is a full-color, 32-page, hardcover book, written by game designer Jonathan Tweet and illustrated by Karen Lewis, a children’s science illustrator.
You can see little children reacting to having the book read to them for the first time. Take a look at this video of three parents reading an early draft of the book to their children.
Please keep in touch with us by Liking our page on Facebook. Our page includes lots of behind-the-scenes posts about evolution and the process of creating Grandmother Fish.
You can download the free PDF edition of the book here. [PDF no longer available]
For more information about Grandmother Fish, see our About page. To see what others are saying, see our Reviews page.
Thanks for your interest in Grandmother Fish!
—Jonathan