We always enjoy celebrating the
Virginia Festival of the Book and taking advantage of the great authors who are
in town.
On Friday March 20th all of our 3rd
and 4th grade students thoroughly enjoyed a memorable presentation
by Newbery Award winning author Kate DiCamillo. In addition, 45 copies of
Flora and Ulysses, her 2014 Newbery Award title, were donated to
our school. Other favorite titles by DiCamillo include the Newbery Award
winners Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Desperaux, the Mercy
Watson series, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Bink and
Gollie, The Tiger Rising and The Magician’s Elephant.
Recently, Steven Weinberg,
author and illustrator of Rex Finds an Egg! Egg! Egg! delighted our 2nd
graders, sharing the start of his writing career in kindergarten, answering all
of our questions and emphasizing the importance of reading lots of books and
writing lots of stories. He left us with lots of writing ideas and
pictures of dinosaurs.
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