Events

June 2008
American Library Association (ALA)
Anaheim, CA

September 13, 2008
Noon – 5:00 p.m.
Princeton Public Library Children's Book Festival

September 28, 2008
Children's Book Day
Washington Irving’s Sunnyside in Tarrytown, NY.
Meet over sixty authors and illustrators.
www.hudsonvalley.org

Fall 2008
Come see a musical production of Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life!
Wannaque, NJ
More info to come

November 13-15, 2008
NJASL (New Jersey Association of School Librarians)
Hilton East Brunswick, NJ
Info to come

School Visits

I do many school visits each year, as well as speaking at conferences and libraries. A day-long school visit consists of up to 3 presentations or writing workshops, lunch with students, and book signings. If you are a teacher, school media specialist, or librarian and are interested, feel free to Please note, I don't list my school visits since they are not open to the public, but feel free to ask if there are any coming up in your area.

Comments on My School Visits
"We all had a wonderful time yesterday. You connected with students and teachers alike,  making the kids relaxed and secure. I loved seeing how many boys, in every session, wanted to ask you questions. The teachers feel you were the best author we have had. Thanks for finding the time to visit with us and I hope we can do this again in a few years.
—Virginia Connolly, Librarian, Chatham Middle School, Chatham, NJ
 
"When you visited my school I was in “in class support” English class, which is basically like a special education class mixed with an average English class. Your book, A Mango Shaped Space, was the first book I have EVER, believe it or not, read the whole thing of. I am now in High School, in an Honor’s class, a long jump from where I was before, and have a B+ average. You just inspired me so much that I started writing. It has been a big part of my life since, and when people ask who my writing role model is I’d always start off by saying, “Well last year we had a author named Wendy Mass…”
—Student, Morris County, NJ

Mrs. C's sixth grade class at Van Wyck Junior High in Wappingers Falls,NY, made these amazing and much-large-than-life posters of Jeremy and Lizzy for my visit. You can tell the love and hard work they put into it. Lizzy’s hair sways in the breeze!

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SCHOOL VISIT at Olson Middle School in Tabernacle, NJ, March 2008.
The amazing and creative students at OMS covered the walls of the whole school with hundreds of these colorful homemade keys and made me my very own box with the meaning of life in it. Now Jeremy Fink isn't the only person who has one!