An Author Visit in Every Book — Great Collection to Inform & Inspire Students to Become Readers and Writers – Now 6 Are Available in Softcover!
Give children an inside view of the writing process with these 27 popular and award-winning author autobiographies, written especially for grades 2-5. Engaging text and fascinating, full-color photographs invite children to see how their favorite authors turn ideas into books, and how they organize their writing days. Students will learn what is involved in developing a story, editing and revising, and how the authors became writers.
Meet the Author books are:
Excellent resources to engage your students in the writing process
Perfect for author studies
Authentic models of good writing inspiring to young writers
Hardcover and softcover selections
F/P Level: O Grade Level: 2-5 Page Count: 32 Word Count: 250+
Paperback Single = $9.00 Hardcover Single = $14.95
Patricia Polacco Author of The Keeping Quilt; The Blessing Cup; Fiona’s Lace; Bully; Rechenka’s Eggs; Thank you, Mr. Falker; Mrs. Katz and Tush and more.
Cynthia Rylant Author of the Henry and Mudge stories, Newbery Award winner Missing May, and Caldecott Honor book I Was Young in the Mountains and more.
Janet Wong Poet/Author of more than twenty-five books for children and young adults, and winner of the 2021 NCTE Excellence in Poetry for Children Award.
MTA REVIEWS: “If you give an author a pencil, he or she may just write an autobiographical series like this one! The books feature popular and award-winning writers who share their lives and model the writing process.” —Learning Magazine Spring
MTA REVIEWS: “… instead of showing them the tiny picture of the author on the book jacket, you can hand the kids one of these treasures and say ‘Want to meet the author?'” —Teaching K-8
MTA REVIEWS: “Entertaining and informal, this series is the next best thing to meeting a live author.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
MTA REVIEWS: “These autobiographical accounts read like conversations with familiar friends. The authors’ words draw readers into their lives, and the excellent full-color photographs of home, working environment, and family help children participate in their worlds.” —School Library Journal
MTA REVIEWS: “These are attractively formatted picture book autobiographies, liberally sprinkled with full-color photographs and ideally suited to those younger students who are curious about their favorite authors.” —Horn Book