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AuthorsInSchools is a speakers’ bureau designed to help you find nationally-known or regional authors whose presentations, availability, and fees fit your organization’s needs. Here you’ll find detailed information with more than 30 poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, storytellers, illustrators, musicians, and entertainers who have received high ratings from schools for their ability to motivate students to enjoy reading and writing. Using the genre tabs to narrow down your search, click on any of our speakers’ profile pictures for a complete listing of their current rates, school programs, published works, and testimonials from past school visits.

If you have any questions, or if you are ready to plan your speaker visit, please fill out a “Speaker Visit Query” form and our Author Appearance Manager will respond to you within 1 – 2 weeks.

Sean Driscoll
Sean Driscoll tours regularly throughout the United States performing in theaters, schools, libraries, concerts, and festivals. Sean reaches thousands of children and adults each year through his residencies, workshops, and performances. His educational and highly entertaining shows thrill children and teachers with their interactive animation, music, storytelling, theater, comedy, and magic. His unique variety of talents makes his performances truly original.

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Gary Dulabaum
Gary offers hands-on, interactive programs that include motivating workshops featuring research-based strategies and uplifting concerts with a message that connects reading, writing, and song. He is well known for his use of music, movement, poetry, and rhythm to enhance fluency and comprehension skills. His concert and workshop activities focus on the oral performance of prose, poetry, and music to bridge the gap between “spoken” and “written” English. His most popular workshops are songwriting sessions where he works with students using the Language Experience Approach to create poems and songs based on their classroom learning.

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Steve Charney
Steve Charney is an author, magician, ventriloquist, radio personality, musician, and songwriter from Woodstock, NY who promotes literacy through zany presentations with his dummy, Harry. Steve's presentations teach audiences how much fun reading can be whether alone, with friends and family, at the library, in school, or hidden under the blankets with a flashlight.

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Eric Ode
Eric Ode (pronounced Oh-dee) is an award-winning children's singer, songwriter, poet, and entertainer. He was an elementary teacher for twelve years before he hit the road to share his love of music and poetry with schools, community festivals, libraries, and education conferences. A widely published poet, Eric is the author of Tall Tales of the Wild West (And a Few Short Ones)—the first major collection of cowboy poetry for kids! Additionally, his poetry has appeared in over a dozen anthologies, on a Grammy-nominated children's album, and in numerous children's magazines.

Click here to listen to an interview with Eric Ode!

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Eric Herman
Eric Herman’s musical assemblies are bursting at the seams with comedy, creativity, interactive songs, nonstop participation and rollicking fun. His teaching philosophy is that if you get kids to listen, you can get them to learn. With Eric’s style of humor and his ability to convey important concepts in both powerful and entertaining ways, he could do an assembly about filling out income tax forms that would be easy for kids to grasp and leave them wanting more. So imagine how much better it is that his assemblies are about really cool stuff like creative thinking and living a positive life.

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Teddy Bear Band
Teddy Bear Band offers warm-hearted, developmentally appropriate shows for children in preschool through grade four. Their Child Development Foundation—combined with the band’s contagious music, fun, participation, and role modeling—initiates an immediate connection with children and families.

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Bruce Lansky
Called “The King of Giggle Poetry” by his fans, Bruce Lansky is the creator of the popular GigglePoetry.com website and author/editor of humorous poetry books that have sold over two million copies. Based in Minnesota, Bruce has performed workshops and assemblies at more than 500 schools from coast to coast and has been a featured speaker at scores of reading and media conferences. Bruce's interactive program gives students a chance to learn how much fun it can be to read and write poetry. Students are so inspired, Bruce often receives bags and boxes of poems and thank-you notes from students—sometimes before he’s even left the school.

Click the following links to hear an interview with Bruce Lansky.

Interview with Bruce Lansky Part 1

Interview with Bruce Lansky Part 2

Interview with Bruce Lansky Part 3

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