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Because of the pandemic, Festival to Go wasn't able to
visit individual schools in October 2020. Instead, the
presenters recorded themselves, and have made these
videos available to the entire Rochester City School
District for the month of January 2021.
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The presenters were:
Adam DeRose (this picture taken at Hippcocampo Books in
Rochester, before the shut-down of the schools)
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One of Adam's presentations (moments before the
dinosaur attacked his nose)--he read several of his
picture books about his character Moose
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Alyssa Capucilli (who lives too far away to participate
in the normal Festival to Go, but volunteered to help
out)
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Alyssa showing how a book is printed and put together
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Andrea Page
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Andrea talking about different ways of doing research,
including interviewing people--which she did for her
book SIOUX CODE TALKERS OF WORLD WAR II
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Annette Dunn
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Annette reading her book POETIC SCIENCE OF WATER
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Bruce Coville, another author who lives too far away to
be a regular participant of Festival to Go, so we were
delighted to welcome him virtually
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Bruce reads the first book he ever published (he has
over 100 now),THE FOOLISH GIANT, which was
illustrated by his wife, illustrator and author
Katherine Coville
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Jackie Fisher
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Jackie Fisher talks about how real-life events inspired
her fantasy novel, COURAGE FOUND
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Jackie Yeager
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Jackie Yeager reads from her book, SPIN THE GOLDEN
LIGHTBULB (the first of the Crimson Five series), and
talks about what the future might look like and
encourages listeners to dream big and follow their
imaginations
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Jennifer Shipkowski
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Jennifer talks about the writing process, including
using pictures as writing prompts
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Jim Chaize in person at the 2019 Festival to Go
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Jim virtually--talking about picture books and reading
Ellen Stoll Walsh's MOUSE COUNT
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Joanne Insull
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20 Joanne gave two presentations, reading her books
DUGAN, THE DOG WHO SAID "MOM" and THE SHOE ON THE SIDE
OF THE ROAD AND OTHER MISSING THINGS
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Kathy Blasi
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Kathy reads her book HOSEA PLAYS ON, about the
inspiring Rochester street musician Hosea Taylor
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Keely Hutton
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Keely tells how she came to write (and some of the
challenges she faced) Richard Anywar's inspiring story
in SOLDIER BOY
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Kevin Kurtz
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Kevin did different presentations for lower and upper
grades, telling how his love of science inspires his
books
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Linda Sue Park
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Linda Sue talks about her latest book, PRAIRIE LOTUS,
and how it was inspired by wanting to tell the stories
ignored by history
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Marsha Hayles
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Marsha talks about her book BREATHING ROOM (when
tuberculosis was as feared as Covid), and about getting
inspiration from your own life and from the things that
fascinate you
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Mylisa Larsen
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Mylisa talks about the difference between fiction and
nonfiction, and reads her book IF I WERE A KANGAROO
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Peggy Thomas
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Peggy (wearing her I-outrank-George-Washington
tricorn) talks about writing and revising her book
FARMER GEORGE PLANTS A NATION
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Peter Catalanotto
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Peter recorded 3 presentations, one on his book MONKEY
AND ROBOT, and two that included drawing lessons
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Ronny Frishman
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Ronny tells how she came to write the story of NINA
ALLENDER; SUFFRAGE CARTOONIST
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Rose O'Keefe
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Rose sent a video of actors separately acting out her
play, "A Land of Peace" (a retelling of the story of
"The Pied Piper of Hamelin")
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Sally Valentine did 2 presentations, and I don't have
pictures of either: one is a tour of Rochester
landmarks and their history, and in the other she reads
selected poems about New York State from her
book THERE ARE NO BUFFALO IN BUFFALO
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Susannah Buhrman-Deever
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Susannah did several presentations, one where she reads
her latest book IF YOU TAKE AWAY THE OTTER, the others
poetry writing prompts
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Tiffany Polino
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Tiffany gives two presentations: one reading JUMPIN'
JUNIOR: A BUSH BABY'S TALE, and the other teaching a
dance to accompany the story
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Vivian Vande Velde (with pre-quarantine dark hair)
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(the new look): presentation talking about where ideas
come from, and encouraging students that we each have a
story to tell
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Yuko Jones
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Yuko shares her illustration process and reads Sophie
Blackall's brand new picture book, IF YOU COME TO EARTH
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As another part of Festival to Go, books were donated
by Scholastic, Toys for Tots, and The UPS Store. Some
of these books were delivered to Roberto Clemente
School #8...
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Mary McLeod Bethune School #45...
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and Flower City School #54.
Update to follow when the last of the books are dropped
off at 2 more schools.
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