Author & Illustrator Current Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Honorarium: The fee listed below is only the honorarium and does not include expenses which the hosting organization must pay for. $1,500 per day plus expenses Program Description My presentation is designed to encourage students to write and illustrate their own stories. The workshop is forty-five minutes to an hour long, half an hour for kindergarteners. I have run successful workshops with kids aged five to sixteen and also worked successfully with educators and librarians. I begin by showing the work of the author/illustrators who inspired me when I was young reader. During the course of the presentation I read from one of my books while pointing out secrets in the text or pictures and revealing tricks of the trade. The presentation includes a question and answer segment and an interactive game in which the group creates a story while I illustrate it. All drawings are left with the class groups to be used for further discussion, exercises etc. Depending on the age and sophistication of the group we will discuss different issues of book design (font choice and text placement, when to use a single image or a double page spread, jacket design etc) and how all of those choices can improve the telling of a story. I can lead the workshop in English or in Spanish. I have worked with groups of 10 to 200 students. The ideal group size is 20-60.

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