Authorvisits

That Special Little Baby
Best for pre k -1, small group setting

Part A – read the text and explore the illustrations; discover how the baby
in the book "grew and grew and grew" into a child a lot like ‘you’.
Part B – put each child into their very own two-page spread

left side with current picture of child
right side with space for child to show how they will “grow and
grow and grow!”

Part C – demonstrate how the book is physically put together, with proof
sheets and ‘signatures’.

Found Poetry Writing Workshop
Best for grades 3-5, small group setting

A writing workshop in which children first search through books for eye
and ear catching words, which they store on yellow sticky notes, and then
mix, modify, and rearrange into lines of poetry.

In addition to school and library visits, Jane speaks about children's literature to aspiring writers and teachers.

Contact the author for more information.

Author Visits

"Jane did a wonderful job...We were thrilled to be able to have her visit our campus!"
Heather Stephens, McBee Elementary School librarian

Night Wonders
Best for grades 3-5, small or large group setting

Part A – power point presentation displaying:

Hubble images of the solar system, galaxy and beyond
the structure and size of the known universe
ongoing NASA and ESA space exploration projects

(focus adaptable to specific requests)
Part B – interactive demonstration of the synchronous rotation of the moon
(or why we can’t see the far side of the moon from Earth)

Jane Ann Peddicord




		IRA - 2006 Children's Book Award Texas Book Festival - 2006 featured book Peddicord travels a long, long, way, past stars and glowing nebulae, into intergalactic space-then, ultimately, loops back to a special blue-green planet 'graced by water, wind, and air...' readers will be more than willing to tag along...' School Library Journal, April 2005 "We've long waited for books such as these to explain, in age-appropriate language, some of the fundamental concepts that have shaken the foundation of Physics." Laura Kraft, W.M. Keck Observatory, April 2005



	Texas Book Festival - 2007 featured book "...This is a perfect celebration covering all of the steps that a newborn makes en route to becoming a toddler. The lush, enormously appealing illustrations perfectly mesh with the bouncy rhyme...Sure to be a much-demanded, "Read-it-again" picture book..." School Library Journal, Sept. 2007 "...Peddicord creates a heartfelt story commemorating the wonderful development that occurs between infancy and early childhood. This joyful testimony to a child's progression is bound to appeal to a preschooler's sense of pride in their recent gains..." Kirkus Reviews, Aug. 2007