Children’s book author and educator, Dolly Viscardi is launching her second picture book, All Around Dogs, this coming fall. Her volunteer efforts to promote literacy and offer her skills in the schools in both Denver and Meeker starts again and she is available to do book signings and interactive, family fun activities, as well as to present her All Around Poetry and Writing to Go sessions in elementary schools, bookstores and libraries.

Retired from teaching elementary literacy, Title I, and elementary special education classes, Viscardi is presenting her twenty-thirty minute Writing to Go and All Around Writing programs in either all day or half-day formats in students classrooms. These short, interactive sessions will dovetail the classroom curriculum and highlight the language arts skills needed to build a strong foundation of literacy. Two classrooms of students in each grade served with a maximum of fifty or sixty works best with these interactive sessions possible in a larger area such as the library.

Her half-day teaching presentations, as well as full-day visitations can be arranged for a small fee of $250.00 or $500.00 The honorarium may be waived if a school is willing to offer both books for sale through the P,T,O, with the funds being raised going to the elementary school for their literacy projects.