SCHOOL’S OUT FOR THE SUMMER AND WE’RE GOING TO MISS IT!
~post by Meghan G., BookPeople’s Children’s Book Buyer
Now that pencils and notebooks are giving way to swimsuits and hiking gear, we wanted to take some time to highlight our favorite moments from school year 2013-2014. Between our book fair program, our free classroom book-talks, our author events program, our popular bookmark contest, and Words Across the World (our pilot partnership with AISD to bring book based curriculum enhancements into classrooms), we worked with over 90 local schools this year. And we had a whole lot of fun doing it.
AUTHOR EVENTS:
Over the past 10 months, we welcomed over 45 dynamic authors (including Tom Angleberger, William Joyce, Richard Peck, Erin Hunter, Peter Brown, and more) into 60 schools to meet with kids and talk about their work. And the authors couldn’t have felt more at home in Austin…
View original post 382 more words
