Archive for the “visiting libraries” Category

What we love about visiting schools

November 3, 201018 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, book tour, travel, Uncategorized, visiting libraries, visiting schools

For my blog readers who are blind: the graphics in this blog post are a sampling of thank-you notes and pictures from Lincoln Trail Elementary School. I know from my husband Mike’s descriptions that one note says, “I’m allergic to barking dogs.” Another has wonderful misspellingsinvented spellings: “I injoyed your story and thank you again […]

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Library love

October 15, 201011 CommentsPosted in blindness, Uncategorized, visiting libraries, writing

Seems like Hanni and I had just returned home from that Youth Festival in Champaign when we found ourselves boarding a train again Monday morning. This time, our destination was Glencoe, IL. Librarian Melissa Henderson met us at the train station and led us to a local coffee shop for a snack before our morning […]

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Using Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound in the classroom

June 25, 20109 CommentsPosted in blindness, book tour, Braille, guide dogs, Seeing Eye dogs, travel, Uncategorized, visiting libraries, visiting schools, Writing for Children

This afternoon I’m giving a presentation to school teachers attending the Sandberg Literacy Institute at University of Toledo. Part of my job is to give them ideas of how to use Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound in the classroom. I figured heck, as long as I’m gathering resources to share with these teachers this […]

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Why some Seeing Eye puppies don't become Seeing Eye dogs

May 27, 201019 CommentsPosted in book tour, Seeing Eye dogs, travel, Uncategorized, visiting libraries, visiting schools

A young woman at our New Jersey book signing Sunday said she’d raised a puppy for the Seeing Eye in…get this…her dorm room! Any of you blog readers out there who are scrambling to find just the right college to attend, may I suggest Rowan University or Rutgers in New Jersey, or University of Delaware? […]

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