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I am having an author visit my elementary schools and would like to know
how to make this event extra special and memorible for the students.
These are the replies I received: THANKS TO ALL WHO REPLIED
You may get some help from the articles posted at
http://www.mcbookwords.com -- let me know if we can be of any help. The
articles will give you some specific ideas.
Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators, and Storytellers (Libraries
Unlimited 1999) by Toni Buzzeo and Jane Kurtz is an excellent resource for
ideas.
Some quick thoughts--
--Make sure most if not all students have read the book, listened to the
book,
or had it read to them
--help the students research the authors on line. Most authors have a
website,
or their publisher does. Many times you can find a snippet of the book that
can
be listened to on line. If you have access to the Teaching Books database,
it
is a wonderful resource. I'm sure you can get a free
trial.....http://www.teachingbooks.net/home/
--give the author a mug, cap, pencil, T-shirt---some memento of the school
-- invite a few students/teachers to have lunch with the author
--make arrangements to sell the books beforehand, at school. Send a note
home
to collect money a few days ahead. We do this through a nearby Barnes and
Noble, but I'm sure the publisher would be happy to do this. B&N allows us
to
order a batch of books, collect the money (we don't mark them up) and return
unsold copies. They then bill us at our school discount for the books
actually
purchased, and it all comes out about equal. Put a sticky note in the front
of
each book with the child's name and homeroom. In between programs, the
author
can autograph the books and you can return them to students via the homeroom
teachers after the author leaves.
One thing that I always do is ask a few trusted oldest students (in my
school, that would be fifth graders) to give the visiting author a tour of
our building. That way, the author sees the entire building and not just
the library and aud, where the programs might be going on. The students who
are selected for this honor are always very pleased and I think it helps to
personalize things for everyone. Also, the tour allows the author to see
any work that has been done and displayed throughout the building in honor
of the visit. Just a very small idea!
Ask author to design and autograph a bookmark ahead of time that can be
copied and passed out to all the children, so everyone, even the poorer
ones, have a souvenir.
Auction or raffle off an autographed book.
Have each child draw or write something for the author, to be presented upon
arrival.
Veronica Morris -Elementary Librarian
West Las Vegas Schools, Las Vegas, New Mexico
veronicamorris2004@hotmail.com
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