Today all of the students at Bartlett had a chance to meet and ask questions of our visiting author, Jennifer Ericsson. Jennifer shared her picture books with the children and how she got her ideas for her stories. The younger children enjoyed meeting her cow who introduced her book, No Milk!
The older children had excellent questions about what it is like to be an author. We were all surprised to learn that the author can not talk with the illustrator about the book. One book, The Most Beautiful Kid In The World, took eight years from the time it was accepted to be published to when the book was ready for the shelf!
It was a lot of fun to take one of Jennifer's books, "The Most Beautiful Kid in the World," and create our own beautiful kids. The children had some great ideas and wonderful descriptions.
Jennifer's books are available in our library. We can't wait until her new book, "Whoo Goes There?" comes out this spring. Her visit to Bartlett was made possible by a grant from the CLiF foundation.
Thank you to Jennifer for a wonderful presentation. Thank you to the children for great listening and participation. And thank you to the Children's Literacy Foundation for making this possible. It was a memorable day!
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