Children's Author Visits Valley View Students

Submitted by Valley View School District 365U

Photo: Author Susan B. Katz talks with children Wednesday at Irene King Elementary School in Romeoville.

Award winning children’s book author Susan B. Katz brought her thinking cap and her marvelous version of “brainwork” to Tibbott and Irene King elementary schools Wednesday.

A National Board Certified teacher, she delighted both schools’ younger students with a fun, interactive presentation about shapes and months based on her latest book “All Year Round” which was named Best New Book of 2016 by the Children’s Book Review.

“All of you are writers,” she told the children. “I get ideas when I’m driving, and I have to pull over and stop the car to write them down. I get them while I’m sleeping so I have to wake up and write them down. I get a lot of ideas when I’m on an airplane. When you get ideas write them down on paper.”

Her first book, “ABC Baby Me,” was written the day after her twin nephews were born. “My Mama Earth” was written because she wanted to help children protect our plant. She wrote “ABC School’s For Me” as a sequel to her first book.

Katz’ visits were courtesy of Scholastic.