Terrific Connections With Authors, Illustrators, and Storytellers

Successful visits in real space and in cyberspace are described, giving you specific ideas of the many ways to create meaningful links between bookpeople and students. Choosing the right guest, guidelines for successful visits, making curriculum connections, contacting bookpeople via e-mail, live chats in virtual space, taking advantage of ITB and satellite technology, and using such props as realia and curriculum guides are some of the topics covered.

TONI BUZZEO is Library Media Specialist, Longfellow School Library Media Center, Portland Public Schools, Maine. She was named Media Specialist of the Year for the state of Maine in 1999.JANE KURTZ is a nationally recognized children's author as well as a lecturer in the English Department, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.