Celebrating 25 Years
of Magic with Books
Authors in April, Inc. is a community sponsored literary program which is held in the beautiful month of April, here in Rochester, Michigan. The community of Rochester for the last twenty five years has invited published Authors and Illustrators, to participate in this one of a kind program for children. The authors will give presentations to fifteen elementary schools, six middle schools both public and private and the Rochester Public Library.
As the children start back to school in the fall, teachers, parents, and volunteers from the community will be busy preparing for the upcoming springtime visit. In the months before the authors scheduled visit, the schools are a flurry of activity. The children will have read many books by their assigned authors who will be speaking to their grade level and created one of a kind paintings, drawings and art objects to be displayed in the Media Center during the authors presentations.
This years guest authors were Lisa Wheeler, Laurie Keller, Gary Schmidt and Christopher Paul Curtis. And I heard from the children, they had a great time listening to the authors presentations.
The 25Th Annual Benefit Dinner was held at Twin Lakes Gold Club with The Honorable Judge Lisa Asadoorian as Mistress of Ceremonies. Judge Asadoorian encouraged everyone of us in the audience; that we must teach our children to read early and to read often. Ms. Asadoorian also had us all laughing about her illustrious "published school story's with beautiful stick figures". During the evening presentations I quietly put pen to paper and put some sketching time in.
