I love author visits & as a former teacher I’ve always been able to make them feel productive and fun even when technology doesn’t work or something else doesn’t go as planned. I’ve shared at all-school assemblies and presented to single classrooms! It’s all good. #kidlitchat 🧵

It was nice. :-)
Kids love to draw. #kidlitchat

There was a major controversy in my hometown when I was a kid. A poet visited the high school before I ever got there, and caused fits with "inappropriate" content and language. That's the only visit I remember even hearing about. #kidlitchat

That sounds so perfect! #kidlitchat

Every once and a while one of my colleagues will send a kid or two to me to talk about writing and I eat it up. But I think I'd go right into teacher mode if I were to do a school visit. Plus I think I have the charisma of an avocado. #kidlitchat

I did something similar--an illustrator friend secured a grant for three of us to be artists in residence at a local elementary school. It was fun--we were presenting to the art classes, so I read my book, and then we did drawings based on the characters. #kidlitchat

I used to be at my kids’ school quite often to help out, with intervention sessions and multiple other activities, but after the pandemic, they have far fewer opportunities and every visitor needs to go to the admin offices to get fingerprinted and a background check. #kidlitchat

I know. I can't remember ever having an author come and visit. #kidlitchat

I think, too, a lot of this depends on the age group of the presentation. I think many of us have talked with teachers/librarians rather than kids, so that's a totally different thing. But a good school visit with kids is magical #kidlitchat

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When I was a kid, we never had an author visit. I wish we had. I didn't even realize authors were real people or that it was something I could do, even with teachers telling me I could someday. #kidlitchat

Okay, he's the thing about this, I'm a full-time high school English teacher....I kind of think I wouldn't be the best school visitor. I couldn't turn my teacher brain off! #kidlitchat

I did an "how to draw a ___ ... using basic shapes fat a school: 3 presentations (30 -45min each) geared for kindergartners 1st and 2nd graders, 3rd & 4th graders. My friend referred me & told me to write a proposal. I was terrified when they said YES. But it went well. #KidLitChat

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Two things : do you have a best or worst #authorvisit experience as a writer, teacher, librarian or kid? Also, I totally recommend @debbieohi.com 's #SchoolVisit "handbook" #kidlitchat

We're on a Discord, and there's a whole section for sharing short stories and chapters. It's a good place to get beta readers offline, too. Some folks ask for esoteric info/research sources or that idea-bouncing kind of thing. We also have a section where we pay our pet tax. #kidlitchat

I haven’t done any yet but I’m brainstorming ways to make it interactive. As a music teacher I want to include music and instruments. #kidlitchat

One of my well-published MG friends spent months on a school visit tour. I asked recently if it helped with sales or anything. He said it didn't help much, and he would have lost money if his publisher hadn't supplied swag. But he had fun, for a while, despite the motels and fast food. #kidlitchat

It seems that at least our district is doing far fewer events in the last few years. 😔 #kidlitchat

I took almost as many other titles to give away, and as always, I took a bunch of candy. You want kids to engage and participate? Ask a question and toss a candy to whoever answers. They will ALL have something to say then. Another teacher said, this isn't her first rodeo. 😝 #kidlitchat