ALA Award Winners

Newbery – When You Reach Me  by Rebecca Stead

Caldecott – The Lion and the Mouse  by Jerry Pinkney

Printz – Going Bovine by Libba Bray

YALSA Nonfiction – Charles and Emma by Deborah Heiligman

Sibert – Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone

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KALLI DAKOS

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Author: 812 Proctor Ave., Ogdensburg, NY 13669; 800-310-9495
Books: Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig; If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand, Poems About School; Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! More Poems About School; Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll; Poems About School; The Goof Who Invented Homework, Poems About School; Get Out of the Alphabet, Number 2, Wacky Wednesday Poems; The Bug in Teacher's Coffee; The Greatest Magic, Poems for Teachers.
Fee: Negotiable
Availability: K-6, large-group presentations (250 maximum), and writing workshops (two classroom maximum per session), teacher workshops and speeches at Conferences. Will travel.
Features: Dynamic, interactive presentations that brings the poetry of the elementary school world to life, and encourages both students and teachers to write, dramatize, and celebrate the special stories they live in their own classrooms. Amusing props and toys bring the poems to life and encourage teachers and students to enter the world of childhood where children literally play their way to a love of literacy.

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