ABCs of an Author/Illustrator Visit, 2nd Edition

Build excitement about reading with successful author/illustrator visits and virtual visit celebrations!

Here’s step-by-step help in organizing actual visits or virtual celebrations-including lively curricular activities. You’ll find new models to help you gather community support, plus new ways to obtain funding and involve co-sponsors. All the necessary steps are covered: the choice of person, timing, place, equipment…getting the books, resource booklets, and videos…helping teachers publicize the event to students (including activities tied to various content areas)…and holding proxy visits , events celebrating author/illustrator works, Read-ins, or visits by e-mail. A number of reproducible forms help make any event flow smoothly-also aided by all the updated contact and related information in the resource section.

* Expanded with more ideas, guides, and updated resource information, including websites and new books

* Gives many examples of curriculum-related activities and ways to use the event to promote literacy

* Presents alternatives to on-site visits, author-focused celebrations, and virtual visits

* Promote enhanced literacy through an exciting celebration of books and the authors and illustrators who create them! You’ll build a love of reading, show connections between books (developing higher order thinking skills), and promote reading comprehension as young readers grow in authentic response to their reading.