Perfect Picture Book Friday/ Author Day for Room 3T

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Take a look and you will see the other monkeys’ favorite sites on board. Yes! Links inside this link! Kid links if you will. Hope you like it as much as I did and do. Actually I hope you have time to look.  Now with our goals of taking more time to write and less time to read blogs and comment, of which I am guilty, I hope you do take some time to check it out.

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Title: Author Day for Room 3T

Author: Robin Pulver

Illustrator: Chuck Richards

Suitable for: ages five through third grade

Published by: Clarion Books, fiction, 2005

First Three Sentences: “It was Reading Week at Lerner Elementary School. The students in Room 3T, Mr.Topple’s third-grade class, were expecting a special guest. Harry Bookman, a real live author, was coming for a visit at the end of the week. “

Resources: Teacher’s guides are available from the author’s web site here: http://www.robinpulver.com/3t.html and a list of recommended reading which includes books by Jane Goodall on chimpanzees.

Themes: School, author visits, fun, humor, libraries, manners, point of view, reading, tall tales,

From the Jacket: The students in room 3T can’t wait for Friday. That’s when Harry Bookman, a real live author, will visit their school. For weeks they’ve been getting ready. They’ve read all of Harry Bookman’s books. They’ve made up songs about his stories and dressed up as his characters. And they’ve come up with lots of questions to ask him when he arrives.

The kids figure that Harry Bookman must be pretty remarkable to cause so much excitement. So when Mrs. Storey, the school Librarian, tells them that authors are actually just ordinary people, they don’t believe her. And when their visitor enters the school through a window and climbs on a desk, they’re sure that this author, at least, is one special guy.

Robin Pulver’s tongue-in-cheek text and Chuck Richards’s madcap illustrations combine perfectly in this hilarious case of very mistaken identity.

Why I loved it: The humor shows right on the cover. Don’t you just love it? The zany kids and their bright smiles? I saw this displayed on top of a shelf at my library and I just had to read it. I love funny books and there just don’t seem to be enough. When I see one, I have to grab it. Not to spoil the plot there is very little I can say about this book except the title drew me also. As an author who wants to do author visits in schools I just needed a child’s view of this event. There is back matter in the back of the book that is designed for teachers and librarians to get ready for an author visit. A list of do’s and don’ts. This is valuable for any new author or teacher getting ready for an author visit. The last page of the book gives tips for hosting a successful author visit, with a suggested timeline of when you should order books to autograph, notify the local newspapers, and so on.

As Robyn (http://robyn-campbell.blogspot.com/2012/03/perfect-picture-book-friday_16.html) says “Go check out more favorite picture books over at Susanna Leonard Hill’s house. You’ll be glad ya did.

Have a safe and lovely weekend, y’all. Xoxo”

Do you think you will like this book? Why or why not?

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Cover of Author Day for Room 3T

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