A Wonderful Week in South Carolina!   Wow! What a week I had in South Carolina. I briefly saw my wonderful library friend Harriet in Bamburg, then from there I traveled to Sumter and had two terrific days of school visits at Pocalla Springs Elementary.   Donna Myles, the media specialist had all the kids well prepared and everything went swimmingly! (Isn’t that a great word!)   One of the 5th grade classes used my poem “Another Note From Mom” for a writing/illustrating exercise.  Each student in the class took one line from the poem and illustrated it. Then they recited it! Too cool!  And several of the kids had some great ideas for the next book in the How to Drive Your Sister Crazy series.  I can’t tell you what they are because I don’t want to give them away, but any of you girls out there with younger brothers and sisters, be on the lookout for fake spiders!     From Pocalla Springs I traveled to the great city (pop. 8,000) where I presentated at Pleasant Hill Elementary.  Jolla Powell was a terrific hostess. She told me a lot of history in the county and it seemed that she knew someone or was related to someone in every house we passed on the way to dinner.  What was so special about Hemingway was coffee the next morning at the Liar’s Table at Floyd’s Grocery.  Can you say Mayberry?   Small towns are so homey!    Then off to the South Carolina Reading Conference where I met lots of media specialists and a wonderful illustrator, Floyd Cooper. He has illustrated 80 books!!! And he recently won the Coretta Scott King Award.      I also talked with Highlights publisher Kent Brown, whom I had met about 10 years ago when he critiqued some of my poetry.   I think Donna and Jolla are going to send pictures, so I’ll post those when I get them.
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