This week is Author's Week. On Monday, we had author and illustrator Grace Lin join us and share about her many books. She was such an enthusiastic and energetic speaker. We learned how she used real stories from her life to create her books. She keeps an IDEA journal with her at all times. She showed us how to draw a tiger for the Year of the Tiger.
Wednesday brought us a visit from author Julie Hahnke (pictured above). She's written three books and published two of them. We loved hearing about all of the extensive research she does before writing a book, as well as how she planned out all of the series books before she even wrote one of them. Julie shared how she learned about Scottish clans and their land and battles, her research about animals like a pine marten and luna moth, and she even played the bagpipes for us, and showed us her ENORMOUS sword...don't worry, it was a replica. Julie Hahnke was another inspiring speaker.
Thursday, we had another assembly with storyteller Valerie Tutson. She was amazing. She taught us songs and words from Africa and completely mesmerized us with her stories about Zora Neale Hurston and a boy who could communicate with rainforest beings. It was interesting to think about how stories were shared as entertainment and history before they were ever written down. Who doesn't love a good story?
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