Participating in the author's festival was a valuable experience! I was assigned to a school called Monterey Highlands with four other authors. I conversed quite a bit with Rozanne Lanzak Williams, who has written numerous books for beginning readers and teaching resources. She even travels around the world sharing her books! All of the staff and students at Monterey were very sweet and I could tell they were excited to have us. I conducted four presentations which involved teaching a song, reading my book, talking about being an author and illustrator, doing a little group activity, and answering questions. For those of you that know me, I had no problem being very animated to keep the attention of my little audience! While walking to my car, I couldn't stop smiling as I reflected on the day. This "gig" was right down my alley and I would certainly be willing to do more of them!
