Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators, and Storytellers : Real Space and Virtual Links

Exciting, productive connections with authors, illustrators, and storytellers are at your fingertips with this resource. Unlike other author visit guides, this book goes beyond nuts-and-bolts planning to how to create the best possible encounters between students and authors. Successful visits in real space and in cyberspace are described, giving you specific ideas of the many ways to connect with and create meaningful links between bookpeople and children. Choosing the right guest, guidelines for successful visits, making curriculum connections, using e-mail to connect with bookpeople, live chats in virtual space, taking advantage of ITB and satellite technology, and using such props as realia and curriculum guides are some of the topics covered. Lists of author/illustrator web pages and managed Internet sites for author interaction are included. "Now you can plan the best possible encounters between students, authors, illustrators, and storytellers - in the classroom, library or even cyberspace. Created by a nationally known children's author and a library media specialist, this book shows you how to choose the right guest, successfully contact bookpeople to make arrangements for your event, and make the most of the visit with curriculum connections and learning extensions. You'll also find out how to take advantage of technology to maximize your budget and add even more excitement to your program."--Jacket Provides Librarians And Teachers With Advice, Checklists, And Resources For Arranging Both Real And Virtual Visits With Authors, Illustrators, And Storytellers. Imagine that your school is hosting a schoolwide author visit.