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Winooski School Visit in the Burlington Free Press

Burlington Free Press Article

Burlington Free Press Article

I ran into my neighbor this weekend, and was surprised to learn that he’d seen an article about me in Saturday’s newspaper.  The article was about my recent visit to the Saint Francis Xavier school in Winooski, VT.  After speaking to several classes, the librarian showed me a number of different projects that the students had done, based on my books.  Here’s a picture of a wonderful coral reef diagram that one class made.  The assembly of the reef was directed entirely by the students — they assembled it using the information they learned in Coral Reefs and other sources:

Coral Reef Wall Diagram

Coral Reef Wall Diagram

And here’s another project that they did.  It’s a doorway that’s been transformed into a redwood trunk.  Each of the green redwood needles was contributed by a different student, and on each is written a fact about redwoods that that student learned from Redwoods or another source.  That’s an origami flying squirrel, hanging from the ceiling, too.

Redwood Doorway

Redwood Doorway

 

My Event at The Flying Pig Bookstore

Thanks to everyone who came to my event at The Flying Pig Bookstore on Saturday.  I had a wonderful time and the event was a great success–we sold out of books!  Today, Losie Leavitt, co-owner of the store, wrote about the event on ShelfTalker, a Publisher’s Weekly blog.  Below are some of the images that she…

Island selected by the Junior Library Guild

Island has been designated “A Junior Library Guild Selection” for Spring 2012.

Island Cover Revealed

My next book Island: A Story of the Galápagos will be coming out next fall and Roaring Brook has released the cover.  Here it is:

Fuse 8 Gives Coral Reefs a Great Review

In November, the New York Public Library’s children’s librarian, Betsy Bird wrote a wonderful review of Coral Reefs on her blog, A Fuse #8 Production.

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