My published titles span a wide age range so there is something for everyone at your school. There's Book! for the preschoolers and Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems for fourth and fifth grade. Little Dog Poems and Little Dog and Duncan are favorites of the beginning readers and Fold Me a Poem has inspired amazing art projects at all grade levels. My "nature" titles (The Great Frog Race, Old Elm Speaks, Toasting Marshmallows, and Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems) are a perfect fit for science units, Earth Day, and Arbor Day. 

School visit programs are tailored to the academic needs of each school and my planning starts long before I walk through the doors of your school. My goal is to partner with you so that my visits meets your individual school's needs and goals.

A typical school visit usually includes two to three large-group assemblies coupled with as many informal small-group "Meet the Author" sessions, classroom chats, as we can squeeze into the day. Most schools include a book signing and I am happy to autographs books for your students. Assemblies include a lively digital slide presentation, student participation, and props. All of my presentations are designed to give students an opportunity to experience a variety of poetic forms and give them a candid look inside the creative writing process. (Yes, I discuss that dreaded topic: revision.) 

Please feel free check my references and contact my publisher or me to discuss a school visit. I look forward to hearing from you!