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> > Holy Toledo!! $1500???
> >
> > Can I ask where you get that amount of money? Is it given to you as budget
> > money, or do you earn it with your book fairs?

Lisa gave a fabulous answer to this!  What a host of ideas for bringing in
authors (and if your community will buy lots of books during the visit--I
know that's not possible in every school--then your first line of
preparation IS to obtain books for the publisher at a deep discount and
sell them at cover price, as Lisa recommends).  You'll find other creative
funding ideas in my book Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators,
and Storytellers (Libraries Unlimited 1999), especially joint funding
between schools and public libraries in a community and grant funding, both
corporate funding and federal school funding such as Title I.

Lisa gave you all a heads-up about my October 2004 visit to her New Jersey
school.  As an author, I almost always try to piggy back visits, as I know
other authors do.  When bringing someone in from out of state to my school,
I also always find at least one other school to share the visit with so
that I can split travel and lodging expenses.

Best,
Toni


Toni Buzzeo, MA, MLIS <mailto:tonibuzzeo@tonibuzzeo.com>
Maine Library Media Specialist of the Year Emerita
Longfellow School
432 Stevens Avenue
Portland, ME 04103
http://www.tonibuzzeo.com

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