Online Author Chats!
June 16th, 2009I am now offering online author chats via ichat on my mac!
Friday, March 19, 2010
I am now offering online author chats via ichat on my mac!
Just when I thought the school year couldn’t get any better, it did. Jeff and I drove to the U.P. of Michigan so I could speak at the Marquette-Alger Young Authors Conference.

Wow. This is the largest young author event I have seen. Over the course of 4 days, about 3,000 students from surrounding school districts were brought to Northern Michigan University.
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Wyoming Reads! Thanks to the Sue Jorgensen Library Foundation, approximately 7,000 Wyoming 1st Graders will receive a free hardback book. They can choose from six books and one of them is Vulture View! They will receive the books at one of 35 celebrations on May 19th.
Expect more posts to come about my terrific visit to Battle Ground Elementary. In the meantime, you can go to INK (Interesting Nonfiction for Kids), a group blog for nonfiction authors and see my report about one of the days at Battle Ground. Scroll down to April 23, 2009.
A tiara was involved. Need I say more?
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Val Byrd Fort, media specialist at New Providence Elementary fixed up these great invitations sent to students chosen for a special small group writers’ chat with me. This is a new event I started offering in addition to my traditional large group talks at schools late this school year. I met with only about 12 students each time. And oh, the joy of it!
Understanding. Decoding. Absorbing. Whatever you want to call it, kids develop skills to dig into nonfiction text. They learn to pay attention to details and themes. Read more »
My newest book, Honk, Honk, Goose: Canada Geese Start a Family arrives April 14, 2009, thanks to wonderful publisher Holt and illustrator Huy Voun Lee.
Reviews have already been terrific. We are excited. Honk! Honk! Honk! So I am making noise. So are the geese. They have returned to nest here.
Read The Bumblebee Queen. Pull out the chewiest, most evocative vocabulary and put it on sticky notes. Then move around the words to make a poem of your own. Read more »
4K is Kindergarten with 4-year olds. Just look what a creative educator can do with this group and my book, Hush Little Puppy. Mrs. Weed came up with all sorts of activities at Lake Murray Elementary.
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April Pulley Sayre is an award-winning children’s book author of over 55 natural history books for children and adults. Her read-aloud nonfiction books, known for their lyricism and scientific precision, have been translated into French, Dutch, Japanese, and Korean. She is best known for pioneering literary ways to immerse young readers in natural events via creative storytelling and unusual perspectives.