Now Booking In-Person Visits for 2024-25
“Stacy’s visit to our school was a dream come true for our students.”
“I love science. I love math. And I LOVE stories! I don’t believe these things must orbit in different solar systems. In my books and in my presentations, I aim to entertain, spark curiosity, and nurture a love of reading.”
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Most of Stacy’s in-person school visits are handled by The Author Village. More information can be found on their website.
A Full-Day School Visit
Three 45-Minute Presentations, Lunch with the Author, & Book Signing
Schools choose from several different topics related to Stacy’s books. Presentations can all be the same or we can mix it up.
Stacy’s presentations are interactive and work in an auditorium, media center, or classroom.
Kids love getting signed books. A pre-sale arranged through your local bookstore works best.
Presentations
MOST POPULAR! Our Universe - Our local star, friendly satellite, and the planet we all share have a lot to say. Let's explore our universe from 4.54 billion years ago up until today. (Technically, the universe is over 13 billion years old. Our solar system is much younger.)
Book Tie-In: Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years (for the younger kiddos) and Sun! One in a Billion (for the older kiddos)
Grades: K-2 or 3-5What Would You Do? - Go behind the scenes of my third middle-grade novel. We’ll go from idea, to research, to writing, to rewriting, and we’ll discuss how we might spend all that $$$. Includes writing tips!
Book Tie-in: Millionaires for the Month
Grades: 3-5 and 6-8STEM It Up - Dinosaurs are extinct. Woolly mammoths are extinct. Actually, 99% of all Earth’s species have gone extinct. But Homo sapiens are the first animal who can contemplate their own fate. We’ll take a funny, science-y look at our world: past, present, and future. A fun presentation for language arts and science teachers—and, of course, students.
Book Tie-In: Save the People! Halting Human Extinction and Where are the Aliens? The Search for Life Beyond Earth
Grades: 4-8Being Brave: Super Powers Not Required - Imagine a child standing on the end of a diving board. She's nervous about jumping? Friends are chanting, "Jump, jump, jump." What is the brave thing to do? Jump or to say, "I'm not ready." We will talk about what it means to brave for kids each and every day.
Book Tie-In: Brave, Beautiful, and Love
Grades: K-2Research and Writing: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things - My research usually begins on Google or in the library, but then the world becomes my source. I'll give examples of how I research and take notes. Then we’ll discuss how to make our writing stronger. (Spoiler Alert: it’s not with adjectives and adverbs.)
Book Tie-In: Various, including work-in-progress
Grades: 4-5 or 6-8NEW! The Evers and the Problem with Forever - Imagine it. You are cursed to walk the Earth exactly as you are now for eternity. What would that look like? What are the downsides? What are the advantages? Go behind the scenes of my first fantasy novel (a duology, really). Students will hear that writing isn’t just about plotting and revision (those are very important) but also perseverance. Includes writing tips!
Book Tie-In: The Ever: Forever Twelve
Grades 2-5 or 6-8Miscalculations! - Go behind the scenes of my first (and best-selling!) middle-grade novel. The journey will take us from idea to finished book with an emphasis on the research. Of course, we’ll be using lots of numbers to dig deep. 3.141592653…
Book Tie-in: The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
Grades: 3-5 or 6-8Favorite Funny Book - Kids always ask me if I have a favorite book (that I authored). The answer is NO. I love them all. But I like to hear which is readers’ favorites. In this presentation, we will read three of my funny picture books. I’ll share where the ideas came from and some of the struggles in writing silly books. Then we will crown one the FAVORITE!
Book Tie-in: I Want 100 Dogs, Excellent Ed, and Mr. Fuzzbuster Knows He’s the Favorite
Grades: PreK-1
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Stacy also loves visiting libraries, high schools, book clubs, and air-conditioned summer camps.
Testimonials
“Stacy’s visit to our school- Abington Friends School - was a dream come true for our students. Our Lower School students had been reading and listening to The Dino File A Mysterious Egg and our younger students had been intrigued by both her picture books and listening to The Dino Files read aloud. Our students listened with big smiles as she read excerpts from her books and told her family’s story of their own trip to look for dinosaur fossils in Montana and how this trip inspired her writing. They loved hearing how and why she wrote her various picture books. Our students loved her books so much that they read or listened to the entire trilogy of The Dino Files and read her picture books again and again.”
“Thank you so much for Skyping with us today! The students loved it! It was great fun to get to know you and your books!”
“Our students LOVED Stacy’s presentation. She really gets them involved in the publishing a book process.
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“Stacy is extremely entertaining, and interesting. I especially enjoyed the game show she put on! I also really love how she engaged the students when she spoke to them. ”
“Entertaining and educational! Our students loved the interactive game and are still singing the dinosaur stomp song.”
“We so enjoyed having Stacy last school year that we were going to see if she was available again this year.”
“The K-2 students at Anderson Creek Primary loved having Stacy visit for our school-wide reading celebration! Her presentation shared personal family adventures and the stories behind her books. She encouraged the students to participate and kept our young readers engaged. Students are seeking out her books to check out from the media center and talking about the experience. A second grade student sums it up best, “You have amazing and cool stories. Can you please come back?””
Presentations for Adults
Engineering a Picture Book: Shows writers how they can take an idea from "art to part" using the design cycle.
Publishing 101: Sharing first-hand knowledge about writing, finding an agent, and getting published.
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