by Phil | May 25, 2020 | Ideas
A school canceled my virtual author visit because they didn’t want their fourth graders to know about my middle grade novel A High Five for Glenn Burke. They didn’t want their fourth graders to know about it because they feared a few loud parents in their community....
by Phil | Mar 6, 2020 | Education, Equality
I had a school visit cancelled this week. No, not because of the novel coronavirus. The school would not allow me to speak to its middle school students — middle school students — about A High Five for Glenn Burke, my new middle grade novel. The school...
by Phil | Feb 13, 2020 | Memories
A High Five For Dad, A High Five For Glenn Burke My dad will never read my new middle grade novel, A High Five for Glenn Burke. Even if he does, he won’t remember it. He has dementia. I said goodbye to my dad last summer on July 16. Well, I said goodbye to a...
by Phil | Dec 12, 2019 | Memories
A High Five For Andrew Clements Thank you, Andrew Clements. Like thousands of other classroom teachers over the past twenty plus years, I shared the novel Frindle by Andrew Clements with my students. In class 6-413 at the West Farms School in the Bronx in the...
by Phil | Nov 29, 2017 | Books, Education, Ideas
Every student deserves to experience an author visit. It doesn’t matter if they attend a rural Title I school in York County, Nebraska or an elite prep school on the Upper West Side of New York City, every student should have the opportunity to experience an author...
