Support Author & Illustrator Studies and Research

• Create idea gathering and notetaking pages like these featuring

Mo Willems, Jacqueline Woodson, and Alice Walker.  

• Learn from authors and illustrators & browse for resources that reveal

          author’s purpose & writing and research processes.

• Models of reflective writing for students with Original Author Posts.  Enjoy,

Terry Lynn Johnson speak about survivalist books.

Coretta Scott King Book Awards

• Hear award-winning author Ashley Bryan in his Meet-the-Author Book Reading
• Support content area initiatives using a variety of resources that start conversations like these from Vaunda Micheaux Nelson’s

No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller.                                        

February is Library Lover’s Month

• Listen as Christopher Paul Curtis shares a memorable story of how he began writing books

for children and shows viewers the library where he wrote daily.

• Inspire writers with Mac Barnett’s Meet-the-Author Book Reading as he shares the

library poster prompted The Skunk.

• Spotlight Libraries and Librarians with resources for titles on this list.