My Final School Visit of the 2014-2015 School Year

In early June, during the last week of school, I visited Treasure Coast Elementary School.

I visited Mrs. Mulcahy's kindergarten class and we read This Old Band together.

Then students asked me a few questions.

This student's question was, "Where did you get the idea for This Old Band?"

Here is our group photo. These students were going to be moved into first grade later this very day.

They presented me with this very nice thank you note. I'm the one who is thankful to Mrs. Mulcahy, her kindergarteners, my friend Mrs. Hammler who invited me to come visit (and took these excellent classroom photos), and The Vero Beach Book Center for helping us with book sales. 

May Events: Kids' Blast and Author Fiesta!

This past week has been busy with two fun events. The first, Kids' Blast, was on May 17 at Riverside Park in Vero Beach. 

I was honored to read with children as part of The Vero Beach Learning Alliance presentation and in partnership with the Vero Beach Book Center for Indies First Storytime. We read from Gone Fishing and I gave a sneak peek reading from This Old Band!

Photo courtesy of Karin Hammler

Photo courtesy of Karin Hammler

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On Thursday, May 22 I participated in the Author Fiesta! at Keene's Crossing Elementary School in Windermere with several other Florida authors. During my daytime presentation we talked about reading and writing and all of the 3rd graders and I read together from Gone Fishing. That evening we talked and read some more. Kim Britt, owner of Bookmark It helped us sell our books.

 Sharing photos of my fishing family. (Photo courtesy of Kim Britt.)

Young readers who took home a copy of Gone Fishing! (Photo courtesy of Kim Britt.)

L/R: Host and Media Specialist Jennifer, Renee Adams, Ethan Long, Judy Lindquist, Christina Farley (author and host), Me (Photo courtesy of Kim Britt, Bookmark It owner.)

One of my favorite parts of being an author is reading with students!