Author+Visits

This is a place to put information about authors who are available to visit SD72 and do presentations. The entries could include age range for audience, size of audience preferred, cost of presentation, contact info. for the author, and, if possible, reviews of past presentations.

students Grade 9 up || $125 || Excellent presentation done at Southgate in 2009 for grade 9s. || Grades 3-6 || $150 || Satisfactory presentation done for CCBC Book Week in May 2011, for grade 7s at Southgate, with grade 6s from Oyster River, plus other elementary school visits. || Sigmund ||  ||   ||   ||   || Kristin ||  || Elementary & Middle ||   || Can present workshops on the writing process. Brings artifacts to enrich presentation. Lives in Campbell River. || [|www.berylyoung.com] || late elementary & middle || $250 for both BY and NC || Lives in Vancouver. Presented jointly with Norma Charles. Both older women, kept my library with 85 Grade 7,8,9 students rivetted. Beryl writes fiction and non-fiction. || middle || see above || see above. Norma writes for age 10 and up -mostly set in BC || = = =**Websites:**=
 * **Author**
 * Name** || **Contact**
 * Info.** || **Size & Age of**
 * Audience** || **Cost of**
 * Presentation** || **Reviews** ||
 * Wilson, John ||  || 90 - 100
 * Withers, Pam ||  ||   ||   || had her in the gym with over 100 students. Good slide show of extreme sports. ||
 * Falcone, L.M. ||  || 150 students
 * Brouwer,
 * Butcher,
 * Beryl Young || website:
 * Norma Charles ||  || late elementary &

This website is created by Pam Withers. It has links to authors, writing contests, and tips for encouraging reluctant readers. http://www.keenreaders.org/
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