Filed under: Author-visits

Authors and libraries....

Where would libraries be without all those books? We spoke with   April Halprin Wayland, author of several children's books

including:

Girllanding
Grandma_cvr
Girl Coming in for a Landing

and

It's not my turn to look for Grandma

 

about her experiences as an author visiting the library and how important that connection is: author to reader.  Librarians often make those connections for their students by inviting authors to the library and create exciting celebrations out of those visits. 

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Here's what she had to say:

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