The Virtual Author School Visit Evolves By Shannon Maughan | Dec 11, 2020
Visiting young readers at schools and libraries is a significant part of many children’s book authors’ and illustrators’ jobs. School visits are also a big piece of publishers’ publicity campaigns for picture book and middle grade authors. But school closures forced by the pandemic suddenly halted this long-standing practice. As educators and families try to navigate uncertain times this academic year, a new era of virtual school visits is coming into clearer focus. We took a look at how some authors and illustrators are leading the way forward and explored some of the issues involved.
Per Petterson’s “To Siberia”
Graywolf Press, 2008
In 2007 Per Petterson had his second publication in the United States: a short, unostentatious, and penetrating novel entitled
Out Stealing Horses. It was a surprising commercial and critical success, propelled in no small part by Thomas McGuane s feature-length review in the
New York Times Book Review that coincided with the novel s release. McGuane s review is itself a sort of masterpiece, establishing subtle continuities between Petterson s Norway and the American literary landscape. Its opening paragraph ends with a bold statement about Trond Sander, the narrator of
Out Stealing Horses: he is more like us than other Scandinavian protagonists.
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