The Program

The Visit

   I love doing school visits! It's great to see how much kids enjoy my books and to interact with them.  I always find it very inspiring.
    
   Since I have done books for a wide range of ages, I am able to do programs that are appropriate for students from Preschool - 5th Grade.

The Programs

   For the very youngest children, I can read All Better, which I both wrote and illustrated.  It has repetitive words to facilitate reading and it's a silly story.  We can also do a drawing lesson using shapes.  What animals can you make with a circle and a triangle?  Even the youngest students are very successful with this exercise.


   For K-2nd grade, I have a PowerPoint presentation of A Dark and Noisy Night.  The book utilizes onomatopoeia.  The children have the opportunity to read the words and make noise!  I have to say that kids really like to make the noises!  I will show them how a book is made, which includes rough drafts of writing and drawing through the finished product.
   We will do a drawing lesson, first learning how to draw Peggy the Pig and then other animals, again with just shapes.
   There will be time for questions and answers, too.


  For 3rd-5th Grade, I have a PowerPoint show of The Viper.  This book is suspenseful and a little bit scary but ultimately funny.  It also reenforces the concept of time, both in numbers and in time passing.  
   I will show the students a little bit about the printing process.  And I will explain the different steps that go into making a book, from initial writing, rough sketches, working with an editor, book dummies, layout, a bit about the printing process and the finished product.
   Then we have questions and answers.  There are usually a lot of good questions.  It's good to have the students prepare a bit before the visit.
   We will also do a drawing lesson starting with drawing Peggy the Pig, some other animals and, perhaps, trying to illustrate a passage from a book.
 

 

 
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