by:
Buzzeo, Toni
Kurtz, Jane

Publisher:
Libraries Unlimited
Published:November 15, 1999
ISBN:1563087448
Format:Paperback
Pages:185

Description: From School Library Journal
Using anecdotes and examples from schools across the country, Buzzeo and Kurtz offer advice on how to create positive encounters between students in grades K-12 and "bookpeople"-authors, illustrators, and storytellers. Readers are walked through successful visits; given pointers on choosing the right guest (glamorous or convenient, expensive or affordable, experienced or novice, etc.); and offered suggestions on how to make the most of curriculum connections before the visit. An extremely valuable section presents alternatives to real-time visits: e-mail exchanges, online chats, young-writer critiques, or other mentoring programs. The authors suggest how to make these contacts, rules of etiquette, possible set-up arrangements, payment, and outcomes. Numerous "Spotlight" boxes introduce a variety of Canadian and American "bookpeople" and how to contact them. "Alternate Connections" provides sources for visits, author and illustrator Web pages, a list of publisher-managed sites for author interaction, and possible satellite hookups for closed-circuit visits. A handy guide, clearly set up, for both novice planners and old hands.
Susan Hepler, Burgundy Farm Country Day School, Alexandria, VA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description:
Successful visits in real space and in cyberspace are described, giving you specific ideas of the many ways to create meaningful links between bookpeople and students. Choosing the right guest, guidelines for successful visits, making curriculum connections, contacting bookpeople via e-mail, 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.