Fruit Street School

Every visiting author loves a welcome sign.

The third grade made lovely little cards to greet me! This artist’s card was prescient–of course I liked them!

This card reads: “Welcome Sarah Thomson to our school. I hope you have fun Sarah Thomson.” I did! I’m glad kids know visits are fun for me as well as for them.

Last week I spent two wonderful days as a visiting author with the kids at Fruit Street School in Bangor. What a fulfilling sense of normalcy, to be back to seeing kids face to face, reading, talking, and connecting! The pre-k and kindergarten classes and I bonded over wombats and wallabies, and with the first, second, and third grades we discussed how long the longest snakes are and how to structure a nonfiction book. Delightful!