{"id":6351,"date":"2019-10-26T18:21:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2019-10-29T02:25:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T02:25:43","slug":"meeting-with-students-in-and-around-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/meeting-with-students-in-and-around-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting with students in and around Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a whirlwind week, traveling with Scholastic Book Fairs, to meet thousands of fantastic students, dedicated teachers and librarians, and getting to spend time with the phenomenal Scholastic Book Fair team! So many schools rolled out the red carpet, greeting me with hand painted posters and signs, and delighting me perceptive and well-considered questions. Thank you all, for treating me like a princess!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hannah Martin Elementary, Lake in the Woods, IL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hannah Martin Elementary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hannah Martin Elementary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hannah Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hannah Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The first readers in line for the book signing at Leggee elementary in Huntley IL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My helpers at Sycamore Middle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An enthusiastic welcome at Marengo Community Middle School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Patient readers at the end of the lineup at Marengo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marengo students getting their books signed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Helpers at Timber Ridge MS in Plainfield, and look at those AMAZING hand painted posters of my books!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Giant book covers created by Timber Ridge students!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the many posters about my visit at Timber Ridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A warm welcome from Reed Custer in Braidwood, IL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the many welcome posters at Oak Prairie Junior High in Homer Glen IL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Indian Trails Middle School in Plainfield IL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This Indian Trails student is a talented artist who created the framed drawing of my books. It was presented to me as a welcome, and I will cherish it always. Thank you!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There were 740 students in the audience at Indian Trails, but they had such great questions and listened so well!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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For the evening event with the St Nicholas Cathedral school community, the youngest students made this poster.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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St Nicholas Cathedral School, volunteers and principal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My introducers at Jerling JH, Orland Park IL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hannah Martin Elementary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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It was a whirlwind week, traveling with Scholastic Book Fairs, to meet thousands of fantastic students, dedicated teachers and librarians, and getting to spend time with the phenomenal Scholastic Book Fair team! So many schools rolled out the red carpet, greeting me with hand painted posters and signs, and delighting me perceptive and well-considered questions. … Continue reading “Meeting with students in and around Chicago”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6384,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions\/6384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}