David Gordon, author and illustrator of numerous children’s books and art director/visual artist, visited Kindergarten and 1st grades and left a lasting impression on our students! David Gordon has art directed and/or worked on visual development, layout, and character design for numerous production companies from Lucasfilm to Pixar, including such movies as Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., A Bug’s Life, and Cars; BlueSky’s Robots and Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants; as well as, animated commercials for companies like Cheerios and Nike. He has also written and illustrated many children’s books, among them Hansel and Diesel, The Three Little Rigs, The Ugly Truckling, and Smitten. He is one of the authors of the acclaimed graphic novels Out of Picture I and Out of Picture II, and one of three illustrators of Jon Scieszka’s 52-book, N.Y. Times best-selling series, Trucktown. His newest book is Extremely Cute Animals Operating Heavy Machinery. His visit was such a success that we had to place another order for his newest book! He even left us with a special and hilarious drawing of an odd looking sock! Thank you David!

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Alyssa Satin Capucilli, renowned author of numerous children books, including the timeless classic series, Biscuit, visited our Kindergarten and 1st graders and what a unforgettable visit it was! Alyssa read several of her books, hosted a Q&A session, showed the students an authentic book layout, and signed her books. It was a real treat for our students when Alyssa showed them an enormous paper with countless squares each representing a page in a book and then, explaining how the pages are folded a certain way and binded to finish off the publishing process. Kudos to Alyssa for making the visit so memorable for our students that we even had to place another book order! Some students from Mrs. Rogosin’s Kindergarten class wrote letters to the author incorporating their opinions unit. Thank you truly, Alyssa S. Capuccilli!

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Elizabeth Upton, helped us jumpstart the author reading series for the 2018-2019 school year by visiting our Kindergarten and 1st grade students. She read her sweet and great read aloud, Maxi the Little Taxi, and through this story, our students became better acquitted with the literary concepts of onomatopoeia and rhyming. After Elizabeth read her story, students were asked to help create an onomatopoetic song using certain phrases and words from the story, and were offered accompanying coloring pages from Elizabeth. The lovely visit ended with Elizabeth being kind enough to sign copies of her picture book for our students and teachers. Thank you Elizabeth Upton!

On January 23rd, renowned children’s author, Steve Metzger, visited our first and second graders. Steve has written more than 70 children’s books, including: Pluto Visits Earth! (ABC Best Books for Children), Detective Blue (Colorado Children’s Book Award Nominee), and The Way I Act (aligned with Common Core State Standards and approved for classroom use by the California Dept. of Education). He read and discussed several of his books, answered questions, offered advice on becoming an author, and signed copies of his books. Our students received great insight into what goes into writing a story from a prolific author like Steve!

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