Interested in having an author or illustrator visit your school?

With our ongoing goal to promote literacy and the creative process within our schools we provide a FREE service by bringing an author or illustrator to your school. We work with some of the most popular and new children’s authors and illustrators from around the country and locally. The authors’ literary works range from picture books to novels, so, we are likely to find you an author suitable for any grade level. Each author or illustrator will come to your school and do a number of presentations and, then, autograph each child’s book.

In order to schedule an author please contact us via phone or email and we will send you a detailed sheet of upcoming dates available. The detailed sheet will contain information on the author’s books, honorarium costs, appropriate age levels, etc. Some of the authors we work with are located on this website with a brief description of their works. Once you find an author or illustrator you are interested in, we will provide you with the essentials to make the event as successful as possible. We will provide you with a student order form for the school to duplicate and send home with the children. We will provide you with biographical and website information on the author or illustrator. We can send your school advance copies of the author’s books so that your school can familiarize the students with their work. And, last but not least, we will provide your school with all the books you will need, paperback and hardcover, to sell. A portion of those sales will go back to the school.

Name/Picture Popular Books Details of visit Jack Gantos Author The Joey Pigza Books The Jack Henry Books What Would Joey Do? Rotten Ralph series $3000/day (flat fee); 3 sessions; K-8th Robert San Souci Author The Talking Eggs Short and Shivery The Reluctant Dragon Zigzag $1000/day (plus travel); 3 sessions; Pre-K-6th Chris Soentpiet Illustrator My Brother Martin Peacebound Trains Silver Packages Saturday and Teacakes $1700/day (flat fee); 3 sessions; K-5th Barbara Robinson Author Best Christmas Pageant Ever Best School Year Ever Best Halloween Ever $700/day (plus travel); 3 sessions; 3rd-5th Helen Lester Author Hooway for Wodney Wat Tacky and the Winter Games $1500/day(plus travel); 4 sessions; K-5th Adrian Fogelin Author/Illustrator Crossing Jordan $575/day Susan Stevens Crummel Author Cook-a-Doodle-Doo! And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon The Great Fuzz Frenzy $1000/day (plus travel); 3 sessions; K-5th Danny Schnitzlein Author Monster Who Ate My Peas $700/day; 4 sessions; K-5th Diane Shore Author Bus-A-Saurus Bop Look Both Ways This Is the Dream $250/Session; 5 sessions/day; K-5th Carmen Deedy Author Library Dragon The Secret of Old Zeb Agatha's Featherbed $1250/day; 3 sessions; K-12th Michael White Illustrator Library Dragon The Secret of Old Zeb Harriet's Horrible Hair Day $700/day; 6 sessions; K-5th Michael Montgomery Author/Illustrator Night Rabbits Over the Candlestick $500/day; 5 sessions; K-5th Gail Karwoski Author Seaman Water Beds Miracle $700/day; 4-5 sessions; K-8th Greg Watkins Author/Illustrator A Big Beaked Big Bellied Bird Named Bill Brendan Mouse's Big Idea to Save the Bad Bird Bunch 3-4 sessions, Pre-K-5th Amadeus Mary Cofer The Traveling Dog N/A

Call now to schedule at 770-241-0864