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AUTHOR VISITS

Presentations are most appropriate for grades 4 to adult.  Gail will work with a school to offer a program that best fits its students and curriculum. Please contact her by email for more on fees and dates.

Examples of topics include:

• Researching Nonfiction - Using primary and secondary sources.  Finding authoritative online information. Fact-checking. Taking notes. Avoiding plagiarism.  Searching for photographs and illustrations.

• Writing Technique - Eye-catching titles, engaging beginnings, page-turning middles, satisfying endings, essential revisions.

• The Path to Publication - Developing an idea into an article or book. Focusing the topic. Outlining, writing, and rewriting. Working with an editor. Checking page proofs.

• Creating Fiction - Planning a plot, fleshing out characters, bringing the story to life.

• Robert H. Jackson - How he rose from farm boy to Supreme Court Justice.

• Subjects connected to Jackson’s career:
                    New Deal & FDR
                    World War II
                    Nuremberg Trial and International Law
                    Court Decisions dealing with freedom of speech and religion, Japanese internment, school segregation, presidential powers

• John Peter Zenger trial
                    Freedom of the Press
                    The Bill of Rights
                    Eighteenth-Century Colonial Printing
  
  
• Animal Behavior (care of young, defense, food-getting)
  
  
  

OTHER LINKS

Boyd Mills Press www.boydsmillspress.com
Calkins Creek www.calkinscreekbooks.com
Children’s Book Council www.cbcbooks.org
Children's Literature www.childrenslit.com
Cynthia Leitich Smith on Children's Literature www.cynthialeitichsmith.com
Family Reading Partnership www.familyreading.org
Institute of Children’s Literature www.institutechildrenslit.com
Midwest Book Review www.midwestbookreview.com
Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators www.scbwi.org

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