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RCSD Corner: News From the <strong>Redwood</strong> City School District<br />
Authors, Books and Illustrators at Orion School Feb. 5<br />
Imagine having a book that means everything to you, and then you get to<br />
meet the person who created it. Or imagine finding a book that truly speaks<br />
to you, but you’d never heard of it before listening to the author or illustrator<br />
talk about her or his work.<br />
This happens every year at the Orion Children’s Authors and Illustrators<br />
Festival. Children and their parents walk down the beautiful hallway with<br />
the California history mural (designed and painted by past Orion students)<br />
and into the multiuse room, which has been transformed into a children’s<br />
literature wonderland. <strong>The</strong> middle of the room is filled with beautiful chapter<br />
and picture books, while swaths of lavender fabric cascade from the ceiling.<br />
Around the perimeter of the room are tables behind which sit the talented<br />
writers and artists who bring children’s literature to life.<br />
A festival that was started in order to break down the barriers between<br />
children and the people who create the books they love, the event has also<br />
grown into a much-loved annual tradition at the school. Sharon Grant,<br />
coordinator of this year’s festival, says, “This is a schoolwide endeavor.<br />
Every class adopts an author or illustrator and begins communicating with<br />
them in September. Each class makes a beautiful banner for their person<br />
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and hangs it behind their signing table. Orion students have an amazing<br />
opportunity to also serve as docents/helpers to their authors during the day,<br />
giving them time to get to know them even better. However,” continues<br />
Grant, “my favorite<br />
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part is that this is not just about our Orion community<br />
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but is also about reaching out to our community at large. Inviting children<br />
and their families to an event that celebrates reading and writing.”<br />
Former Orion student Malik Vallo remembers that when he moved to<br />
Hawaii his teacher could not believe the number of signed children’s books<br />
he had or the caliber of author he had met in the hallways of his small public<br />
school. “It was really cool to be a docent for an author. It was amazing to be<br />
able to meet the authors of books that I liked and it was interesting to learn<br />
the stories behind the books.”<br />
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This year’s authors and illustrators are:<br />
• Alma Flor Ada, a multiple award–winning author who writes in both<br />
English and Spanish<br />
• Jon Agee, an award-winning author and illustrator whose classic and classy<br />
books include Smart Feller Fart Smeller and Other Spoonerisms<br />
• Isabel Campoy, a well-known writer, poet, playwright, songwriter and<br />
storyteller who writes and tells tales in Spanish and English<br />
• Elisa Kleven, who is considered the festival’s good luck charm and has<br />
participated in every festival since its inception and is the award-winning<br />
author/illustrator of many charming picture books, including the wellknown<br />
<strong>The</strong> Paper Princess<br />
• Maria van Lieshout, the author/illustrator of the beautiful and endearing<br />
books Peep!, Bloom!, Splash! and more<br />
• Yuyi Morales, the multiple award–winning author and illustrator of such<br />
books as Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book and Los Gatos<br />
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• Kathryn Reiss, whose eerie books include Blackthorne Winter: A Murder<br />
Mystery and Paint by Number. And whose less eerie books include two of<br />
the Julie books in the American Girl series<br />
• Pamela Turner, whose science books have garnered kudos and awards<br />
for making science accessible to all ages. Her book Project Seahorse was<br />
nominated for a National Association of Science Teachers Outstanding<br />
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So, come one, come all for an enjoyable day of author and illustrator<br />
presentations and book signings!<br />
Ninth Annual Orion Children’s Authors and Illustrators Festival<br />
Saturday, Feb. 5, 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Orion Elementary School, 815 Allerton St.<br />
www.orionschool.org<br />
Admission is free. Books and food will be available to purchase. <strong>The</strong>re will<br />
be on-site Spanish and American Sign Language translation.<br />
Proceeds support Kainos Home & Training Center<br />
Providing quality residential, vocational and support services to developmentally<br />
disabled adults, enabling them to become active, contributing members of the<br />
community.<br />
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when you eat at Little India.<br />
All You Can Eat Lunch<br />
Mon - Fri 11am - 2pm<br />
Regular $9.95 Vegetarian $7.95<br />
All You Can Eat Dinner<br />
Mon - Sat 5 - 9pm<br />
Regular $12.95 Vegetarian $10.95<br />
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917 Main St., <strong>Redwood</strong> City<br />
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10 % off<br />
with your Parking<br />
Valadation!<br />
• Catering<br />
• In-House Parties<br />
Available<br />
• Takeout<br />
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