SCHOOL EVENTS + CLASSROOM AUTHOR VISIT
I would love to visit your school, teacher's conference, panel, bookstore, kitchen table, and etc! Please contact me to come up with a plan.
WHAT A VISIT MIGHT LOOK LIKE
During a typical school visit around The 50 States and 50 Cities, students and I enjoy lively conversations about the different types of maps, how to make editorial choices about what to include in a map, the social responsibilities of a map, and create a map of an invented state, complete with state foods, animals, and mottos.
>> Students love to critique early drafts of my own book and offer suggestions for how to improve other maps we find in newspapers and books.
>> This presentation is PERFECT for students in grades 4-5, and I have enjoyed tweaking the presentation for students as young as 2nd grade.During a typical school visit with Book of Bones, students and I discuss animal features, decision making in writing, and create a skeleton of an invented animal, complete with labels describing the animals habitat, diet, and special abilities.
>> Students love to give their best effort while drawing and numbering the neck vertebrae in a human VS giraffe. They also enjoy voting on the best size comparisons for the length of a whale mandible (motorcycles VS mailboxes VS walrus).
>>This presentation is PERFECT for students in grades 2-3, and I have enjoyed tweaking it up to 4th grade and down to kindergarten.While it is easiest for me to visit classrooms near Brooklyn, NY and Germantown, NY, I can easily work in a school trip while visiting family in Tucson, AZ and South Bend, IN. And I love to have an excuse to visit friends in D.C., Boston, and all over the place!
Skype visits are grand, too!

HOW TO HOST AN AUTHOR VISIT
Personalize this poster - coming soon!
Get Started: Planning, Fundraising, and Tips for Success - Scholastic
How to Host An Author, From an Author - The Outreach Librarian + Cynthia Leitich Smith
Authors Share Their Best School Visits - Publisher's Weekly
How to Make an Author Visit Affordable - Kristin Tubb
How to Make an Author Visit Effective - Kristin Tubb
25 Tips for Hosting an Awesome Author Visit! - Sarah McIntyre
How to Fund an Author Visit - Steve Layne
ORDERING BOOKS FOR AN AUTHOR VISIT
Start the process about six weeks before your event.
Download and personalize this...
Book of Bones order form
50 States + 50 Cities + Book of Bones order form
OR: Your local bookstore can make one for you
via your local bookseller. Indiebound can help! Some stores, like Barnes and Noble, offer bulk discounts (when 50 copies of the same title are ordered) and/or educator discounts.
Your local bookstore will need the following:
Event Date
Delivery & Location Address
ISBN(s) for the book(s)
Quantity you need per ISBNvia Quarto (1 800 458 0454): sometimes the publisher has deals on their website. Check for discount codes, which may give you 25% off.
UPCOMING EVENTS
APRIL, 2019 - date to come!
The Brain Lair, South Bend, IN
SAT, MAY 25, 2019
Sullivan Country Youth BookFair
FRI, JUNE 7 - SAT, JUNE 8, 2019
MAPSO: Maplewood South Orange Book Fair
SUN, JUNE 9, 2019
Flight @ Stories, Brooklyn
DATE TK, JUNE 2018
Flight @ Books of Wonder, Manhattan
DATE TK, JUNE 2018
Flight @ Books Are Magic, Brooklyn
SAT, NOV 23, 2019
Brooklyn Museum of Art BookFair, Brooklyn
LISTEN ANYTIME! RECORDED INTERVIEWS
Vanessa Denha-Garmo on "It's Your Community" with News/Talk AM760 WJR, 96.3 FM WDVD and 93.1 NASH-FM
Kathy Dalton with Go Adventure Mom
PAST EVENTS
An Open Book Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Barnes and Noble, Indianapolis, IN
Books are Magic, Brooklyn, NY
11th Annual Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Museum Children’s Book Fair, Brooklyn, NY
The Brain Lair, South Bend, IN
Greenlight, Fort Green, Brooklyn, NY
Greenlight, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, NY
ISTA, Indianapolis, IN
McNally Jackson, New York, NY
Osher Map Library, Portland, ME
Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C.
Takoma Park Maryland Library, Takoma, MD
PAST SCHOOLS
Bank Street, New York, NY
Bittersweet Elementary, Mishawaka, IN
Center for Inquiry, Indianapolis, IN
Community Roots Charter School, Brooklyn, NY
Girls Prep, New York, NY
Grace Church, Brooklyn, NY
Greenwich County Day School, Greenwich, CT
Far Hills Country Day School, Far Hills, NJ
John Burroughs Elementary School, Washington, D.C.
Horizon Elementary, Granger, IN
Leckie Elementary School, Washington, D.C.
Mason Crest Elementary, Fairfax, VA
Meadow's Edge Elementary, Mishawaka, IN
PS62, Queens, NY
PS107, Brooklyn, NY
PS118, Brooklyn, NY
PS32 State Street School, Flushing, NY
Radburn Elementary, Fairlawn, NJ
The Co-op School, Brooklyn, NY
The School at Columbia, New York, NY
West EC, Washington, D.C.