The snowdrops are up and  school visits are on! It’s time for World Read Aloud Day, Right to Read Week, Young Author Workshops and general thank-heaven-those-standardized-tests-are-over euphoria.

Some highlights from a wonderful visit to St. Dominic’s School in Shaker Hts. Ohio last week…

The poster that greeted me…

The Fountain of Happiness the littlest kids and I made together (further proof I should NOT attempt to draw, but the kids were very gracious and didn’t make fun). My favorite is probably The Liberty Bell.

(Just so you know, it was a teacher, not a child, who added “coffee”.)

And here is my meticulously detailed portrait, down to my cupcake earrings. Now if I could only get Habibi to walk on a leash like that!