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Lesléa Newman's enthusiasm for reading and writing is contagious! Using her most recent picture books about animals as examples, she shows students how a book is created from start to finish. Her presentation

Lesléa Newman loves to quote her favorite statistic: "One-hundred percent of all authors had, at one time in their lives, never published a book." How does one move from writer to author? With a little,

Lesléa Newman's novel, Hachiko Waits is based on the true story of the famous Akita who lived in Japan from 1923 until 1935 and spent the last ten years of his life waiting at Shibuya train station

You're the Poetry Lady!

In this experiential workshop, Lesléa Newman releases the natural poet that lives in every child. After explaining that we already have what we need to be poets (something