Starting with a magic trick, Carlos charmed and enchanted the 5th and 6th graders with talk of the multiverse, the manipulation of time and space, dead chickens, and a writing exercise involving peanut butter sandwiches that bite back. @BostonSchools @TACC_Boston

Carlos Hernandez met with students at Trotter and Hale Elementary Schools in to kick off the Greater Roxbury Book Fair to discuss Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, winner of the 2020 Pura Belpré Award.

Today is the first annual Greater Roxbury Book Fair! Stop by for readings, book signings, music, and Carlos Hernandez and Jennifer DeLeon, two recent Wondermore presenters! Roxbury Branch Library, Nubian Square @BPLBoston @FrugalBookstore @TACC_Boston

The first annual Greater Roxbury Book Fair is on Saturday, May 20th – and Wondermore will be there! Come by and celebrate books, authors, reading, and Roxbury!

At dismissal, Sheela and I stood outside the school. A 5th grade student approached Sheela to tell her how great it was to read about his own neighborhood in a book he really enjoyed. We look forward to hosting Sheela in @bostonpublicschools again next year!

...all different types of people from all over the world, and shops for those people; so many good restaurants; and a tight sense of community.

Winship Elementary in Brighton hosted @wordsbysheela to talk about Karthik Delivers, which is set in Alston-Brighton. Sheela asked 5th/6th grade students, what makes their neighborhood a good place to live? Responses: Korean food; the B Line; a small town in a big city...

"La lengua es puerta a una cultura y vínculo a la herencia" Lulu Delacre (Language is the door to culture and a link to heritage)

Shout out to new librarian Eva Gerena and her colleagues at Sarah Greenwood, especially art teacher Ms. Rebecca, who meticulously prepared students for Lulu. Both educators had this quote posted in their classrooms:

I had no problem interpreting the community’s delight in hosting Lulu, however--her engagement with students was off the charts.

I do not speak Spanish, and the day was an unusual but also amazing experience: I was in a school a few miles from my home, at an author event I planned, but I understood very little of Lulu’s interactions with the Greenwood community.

Lulu Delacre’s visit at Sarah Greenwood School in Dorchester was a first: after decades of US school visits, she spoke with students entirely in Spanish. It was also the 1st author visit for the Greenwood students, a bilingual K-8 in Boston’s largest and most diverse neighborhood

"...…….talking about it is great for most, but to have a “freestyle” drawing appear magically as Nathan Hale talks is just next level genius.”

“Every answer to our questions is a crazy, weird, trip down a rabbit hole of haunted tacos, chain-smoking Asian mentors, beard-eating raccoons, walls of dinosaurs drawings, motorized painting cart races, Spiderman in the grand canyon, and third grade Halloween doors..."

“Evil fact-checkers, hangman, beard-eating raccoons, and an entire wall of rejection letters……….ohh, Nathan Hale, you are an interesting dude”

“Why does the hangman not have an Instagram account? Nathan Hale is robbing the world of the adventures of the hangman!!!!”

“While graphic novels and historical text are not my first pull at the library, Nathan Hale, the author is!!!!! Probably one of the most interesting people i have ever met in my life. If Nathan Hale taught a college class, I would take it!!!!!!!”

“Nathan Hale walked into my classroom and cracked his head open for an hour and poured genius on me and my classmates”

“Who draws and talks at the same time?...... Nathan Hale does”

“When I am a published, successful artist, I will credit Nathan Hale as a direct influence.”