Introducing Anastasia Suen, Easy Readers Category

Today we meet Anastasia Suen, organizer for our new Easy Readers category:

The author of 110 books, I started teaching elementary school in 1977. I taught kindergarten ESL, first, fifth and sixth grades. After my children's books were published I went back to the classroom as a visiting author.

I co-taught children's literature in the library school at the University of North Texas. Today, I teach writing at Southern Methodist University, for Staff Development for Educators and online. I have written with students of all ages in workshops all over the globe.

I created my first blog in 2005. Now I'm on blogs #7, 8, 9 and 10. I've blogged on Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress, and TypePad. I began with a personal blog and now I blog as an educator. I blog about the Children's Book Biz News for my adult writing students.

I blog about the Picture Book of the Day for my staff development workshops. I blog about book activities for classrooms and libraries in my Book of the Week blog.

Inspired by Poetry Friday, I created Nonfiction Monday in January 2008, and that led to a blogging gig - on Nonfiction Monday - at Scholastic Teacher's Kid Lit Kit: Your Toolkit for Teaching with Books. The focus of my book blogs is using books with kids.

Comments

[Derrick Barnes]

Hi, Ms. Anastasia.

I am the author of the new hit SCHOLASTIC series RUBY AND THE BOOKER BOYS.

Please visit my website to learn more about Ruby Marigold Booker, my background and other books.

Ruby and the BBs is like The Cosby Show meets the family from Spike Lee's "Crooklyn" meets Punky Brewster. Its a great alternative to the Junie B. Jones and Judy Moody's of the world.

peace and blessings
Derrick Barnes