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November 06, 2007
If a Librarian Asks You to Do Something. . .
I have been living out of my suitcase the last few months so posting blog entries has not been at the top of my list. I'm not sure where all my suitcase went, but I have been in Bowling Green, Kentucky; Eureka, California and New York since mid-October.
On Tuesday, I pack up my bag once again and head east. This time to Kansas City, Missouri where I'll visit the great readers at Liberty Oaks and Franklin Elementary schools. Mrs. Miller, media specialist (aka: librarian) extraordinaire at Liberty Oaks and I met last winter at the Central Missouri State College Children's Literature Festival and we began scheming then how to get me back to Missouri. And now I'll be there before you know it.
So when Mrs. Miller emailed me today and asked that I give a shout out to her students -- especially the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders I'll see next week -- how could I say no? I just love to make librarians happy! She says the students have been reading about me and Hattie on my website but I bet they don't know this fact yet: my grandpa, Jewell Brown, was born in Missouri. In a town called Aurora. When I get to Liberty Oaks, I'm going to see if anyone asks me to pronounce "Missouri" the way my grandpa used to.
After being with those great Kansas City kids, Neil and I will drive down to the Missouri Reading Association conference where I'll get to catch up with authors Roland and Marie Smith and Mary Casanova. We'll do a whirlwind visit there -- with more wonderful teachers and librarians! -- then head off to Birmingham, Alabama for a quick visit with the students at Pizitz Middle School.
And just in case you think all I do is watch Nick at Night in the evenings when I'm on the road, I will also be squeezing in some research for the book I'm working on now. A writer's work is never done!
And that's just the way I like it.
Posted by kirby at November 6, 2007 07:12 PM
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