A special pleasure of visiting the D. C. area is the chance to work with
An Open Book Foundation, which brings authors and illustrators into area schools and provides a free book to each student in the classes they visit. I got to talk to the fourth graders of Wheaton Woods Elementary in Rockville, MD, about Elena's Story, in which a Guatemalan girl reads to her brother and mother. Quite a few of the Wheaton Woods students read to their families, too. I got to read stories some students wrote after the program, and signed everyone's books.
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| Thanks, An Open Book, for these gifts! |
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| These writers got right to work. |
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| A chance for conversation |
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| Diana Rojas and Janet Zwick of An Open Book Foundation, which organized the visit. |
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