I'm passing this along for a friend, Carol Levin, children's librarian at the
Somerset County Library in Bridgewater, NJ. Please respond to her at
<clevin@sclsnj.org>with any comments.
Carol writes:
> Don't know whether the school librarian listserv posts author visit
> recommendations but I organized what proved to be a very successful one
> recently at Bedminster School. I'm posting it on the NJ listservs but
> feel free to include it on the national one if you want to. Here is the
> blurb I'm posting in NJ:
>
> In case anyone is looking for a really successful author visit, I have a
> recommendation -- the humorous poet David Greenberg. Not only the
> students (K-8) but the faculty and administration LOVED him (we had
> administrators sitting through an entire assembly (unheard of!) and
> several teachers came up to me afterwards (unprompted) and said that he
> was the best author visit they'd seen.)
>
> Here is the blurb I wrote for the PTO newsletter:
>
> Humorous poet David Greenberg captivated students, staff, and parents
> when he visited Bedminster School last Thursday for assemblies and
> writing workshops. Between the giggles and groans elicited by Mr.
> Greenberg's poems -- including the occasionally dubious delights of
> holding a baby (especially when the baby is squirmy & slimy) and the
> sublime surprises in cafeteria cuisine, students learned about beat,
> rhyme, and meter, and that success in writing (and everything else)
> requires hard work, practice, passion, and perseverance.
>
> We had him do 3 assemblies, and an after-school writer's workshop for
> 4th-8th graders and evening family workshop.
>
> More info. is available on his website:
> http://www.authorsillustrators.com/greenberg/
>
> P.S. His dad was a lawyer for Martin Luther King and he's just
> completed a novel (not yet published) about that experience as well. He
> has some amazing stories.
>
> P.P.S I'm already thinking about next year -- anyone care to share
> particularly successful author visits (K-8th grade)?
>
> Thanks!
> -- Carol Simon Levin, clevin@sclsnj.org (public librarian & PTO author
> visit chair)
>
Judy Freeman
Children's Literature Consultant
"Wild About Books" columnist
School Library Media Activities Monthly
Author of the all new Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3
(Libraries Unlimited, 2006; www.LU.com)
and the brand new, just released (WAHOO!!!), and very cute
Once Upon a Time!: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and
Reader's Theater with Children in Grades K-6 (2007)
65 North Sixth Avenue
Highland Park, NJ 08904
732-572-5634 / BKWSSF@aol.com
www.JudyReadsBooks.com
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