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Children’s author visits Evergreen Elementary
Story and photo by Hugh McMillan
KP News
Keith Baker autographs books
for Kayla Nunsaker, Taelor
Sheats,
and Jeremy Spain.
Photo by Hugh McMillan |
Recently, children’s author Keith
Baker visited Evergreen Elementary School. Baker is not
just an accomplished author of kids’ books, he is a
spell-binding speaker and cartoonist. The kids, a class
at a time, joined him in the school’s library, where
they moved from being wholly mesmerized to being
explosively respondent to his very penetrating — and
there were many — questions. When the kids responded to
some obscure query, it was as if they’d rehearsed for
months as they chorused their responses in what seemed
to be choreographed unison. Some responses were deadly
serious, others were downright gleeful.
Baker’s visit was funded by the
Angel Guild. “Students were treated to a demonstration
by Keith on how to draw facial expressions in
characters. He then showed a slide presentation, sharing
his stories and revealing the creative process and steps
in developing a story, sketches, dummy, illustrations
and finished book,” said second-grade teacher Therese
Souers. “His enthusiasm for writing and illustrating has
inspired and encouraged the students at Evergreen in
their own bookmaking.”
Evergreen’s PTA and St. Hugh’s
Episcopal Church provided funding to purchase a book by
Baker for each student at Evergreen. Baker autographed
the books, personalizing them to each student.”
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