Author Jarrett Krosoczka will visit Glen Urquhart School in Beverly on Wednesday, February 24, 2016. Jarrett has been a storyteller since the ripe age of eight, when he wrote his first book, The Owl Who Thought He Was The Best Flyer, about an owl who challenged Hermes to a flying race. Since that rather promising start, Krosoczka has published 18 picture books and graphic novels for children, including the much-loved Lunch Lady series, which is a two-time winner of the Children's Choice Book Award. Krosoczka hosts The Book Report with JJK on Sirius XM's Kids Place Live, a radio show about books aimed at kids 10 and younger. In 2010, he founded the Joseph and Shirley Krosoczka Memorial Youth Scholarships at Worcester Art Museum, to fund classes for young and underprivileged aspiring artists.
An entertaining and creative presenter, the Jarrett will meet with all grades at the school throughout the day. He will walk the kindergarten and first grade students through the process of creating his picture book Punk Farm. He will describe to second and third graders the art of writing with pictures to create graphic novels, and he will share tips with fourth and fifth graders about how to create complex and believable characters--like lunch lady super heroes and platypus police detectives! Jarrett will share his personal story with the sixth, seventh, and eighth graders, detailing the difficulties of his childhood, how he used his imagination to escape those realities, and how he pursued a passion for drawing and telling stories and went on to become a successful creator of beloved children’s book characters.
Krosoczka delivered this presentation in a very successful TED Talk: http://www.gus.org/news/2016/02/author-jarrett-krosoczka-gus-wednesday-february-24.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
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978-927-1064 x134
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