Such a wonderful welcome on my return to Cedar Hill this week!
Continue reading → An amazing collection of thank you notes from the students at Cedar Hill School in Basking, NJ. What a wonderful surprise to get in the mail!
Continue reading →Such fun hanging out with the terrific kids at Dudley Elementary, designing Mad Scientist Academy stories and talking about books.
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Over the years I’ve signed tens of thousands of copies of my books for other people. This week I got an amazing surprise in the mail. After my visit at French Road Elementary this spring, every student in the school got together and signed my books for me. They filled the endpapers, front and back, and the title pages. There were so many names it took three books! I’m absolutely speechless. What a fantastic gift.
Continue reading →I just finished up several weeks of terrific author visits in the Syracuse and Rochester area. My thanks to all the amazing librarians and students I met along the way!
Continue reading →I’m pleased to share a recent interview I did with the terrific Maths Through Stories website, a great resource for combining math and literature:
http://www.mathsthroughstories.org/interview_matthew_mcelligott.html
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New York Music Festival
For the past several years I’ve had the honor of collaborating with some very talented people to turn my Backbeard books into a musical. Today I’m proud to announce some big news: Our little show, Backbeard, has been chosen as a Grand Jury Selection of the New York Musical Festival, one of only eleven selected from a pool of 220 nation-wide. We’re taking it to New York for a week of performances this summer. Big city here we come!
To learn more about Backbeard: The Musical, click here.
Continue reading →On rare occasions I have been known to show up at the wrong school for an author visit. That’s why I was especially flattered and relieved to find this sign waiting for me when I arrived at Eagle Elementary last week. What a warm welcome to a wonderful day!
Continue reading →During my recent visit to the schools of Birdville, TX, one of the nicest surprises was all the different classroom doors decorated based on the books I’ve written. Each one was a masterpiece. Here’s a small sample:
And at West Birdville Elementary I was surprised with the most amazing box of cookies, each one hand-decorated and painted with characters from my books by Christy Knapp Alexander. They were literally too beautiful to eat. (Of course, I ate them. And they were delicious.)
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Our local NBC affiliate, WNYT just ran a terrific piece on the Mad Scientist Academy series. Many thanks to WNYT meteorologist Jason Gough for all his help on the book. So happy with how this segment came out!
You can watch the interview below. (It’s short, just a minute or two) and read my interview with Jason here.
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