Presentations
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Available Programs
- Ballet is for Everyone! (30 minutes – PreK-2nd Grade) We can all enjoy the arts through performances and books, even if we never were a ballerina. I read my book FIRST BALLET and a selection of other picture books promoting the arts and a ballerina shows the children some ballet positions and does a short demonstration.
- From Idea to Print: How a Book is Made (45 minutes-Grades 1+) Books start out as ideas scribbled on scratch paper or typed in the computer They grow and change through many stages until finally they arrive in your hands at the library or bookstore. In this session, I read from FIRST BALLET and a selection of other picture books. I share the story of how FIRST BALLET became a book and have the kids act out all of the stages as we pretend to write our own book together.
- Exciting Writing! (45 minutes-Grades 3+) What makes a story grab you? In this session, I teach the elements of exciting writing as we create a wild, attention-grabbing story together. I read from a selection of exciting children’s book excerpts and demonstrate how these traits even apply to simple poems like FIRST BALLET.
- Poetry Workshop (45 minutes-Grades 4+) Each kind of poetry has a different set of rules. In this session, I teach the basic rules of rhyme and the differences between the three major types of poetry. I will read from FIRST BALLET and a selection of other poems to illustrate concepts. The session closes with a critique session where the students become the editors and correct the rule mistakes for existing (sometimes famous) poems.
To order books for an event, contact Hyperion Books for Children and ask for the 45% School/Library Discount. To place an order, please call out toll free Customer Service phone number: 1-800 242-7737. Be sure to state that you are ordering books for an author appearance.
FIRST BALLET, Deanna Caswell
(Hyperion 2009)
ISBN-10: 1423113535
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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
Hi Deanna,
I am the Director of a preschool in Atlanta. We have recently refurbished our school’s library and hope to create an area within our library so that our students will actually be able to check out books! In addition to our great literacy program, we offer ballet classes to our students. Your recent book, First Ballet, reminded me of our program. On December 4, 2010, we hope to continue to raise funds for our library through our annual Joy of Giving fundraiser. Would you consider coming to our Joy of Giving event and offering to autograph your book for our families? I know there would be plenty of interest. Your book just seems like such a wonderful fit with our event. Thank you in advance for reading this message and I hope to here from you soon. B.Dent
Bobbie,
I would be glad to make a visit, but since I’m in Memphis, I think it would be very expensive for your school to cover accommodations. However, if other schools in your area want a visit, you could pool resources and split fees?
Deanna