FRED BOWEN
| Author E-mail: sportstory@aol.com Website: www.fredbowen.com |
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| Books: | Winner Takes All, On the Line, The Final Cut, Full Court Fever, Off the Rim, Playoff Dreams, Kid Coach, Golden Glove, and T.J.'s Secret Pitch. Sports fiction for grades 2-5; each story weaves in a little sports history and includes a bonus history section at the back. |
| Fee: | School presentation: $800 for full day. Fee for adult groups varies. |
| Availability: | Children in grades 2-5, and adult groups (librarians, reading specialists and parents) |
| Features: | It's not often that a sports-loving guy comes to school to talk about reading and writing. I want kids to look at me and say, "Hey, I can do what he does." I show them my original (messy) notebook for T.J.'s Secret Pitch so they can see that I start out writing just as they do: with pen, paper, and imagination. Nothing else. I talk about the whole writing process and then I get the group to do some writing with me. It's a very lively and interactive talk. With adult groups, I talk about how to get sports-crazy kids to love reading. I challenge the perception that sports is a narrow interest and talk about the great dramas found in sports, and the power of good sports writing (fiction and nonfiction) to capture young readers. |
