The Importance of Reading Picture Books

Laurie Keller: When I do school visits, sometimes when they'll ask me to speak, if it's a school that happens to go up to eighth grade, they'll say, would you mind speaking to the six to eighth graders as well? And I always get a little bit nervous because I don't have any books for that age. She says she likes Weight Me Up in 20 Coconuts by Laurie Keller because it's really funny and it has characters that express their emotions in many different ways. The book is written with authors husband and Pacey Wook's production. If you'd like to learn more about today's author, please go to our website, kidsaska