While I enjoy seeing students out on the road, I also enjoy visiting local schools. What one local school has done for a while  now is have me visit the kindergartners in the Fall with 
The Ugly Vegetables and the 4th graders in the Spring with 
The Year of the Dog. This is wonderful not only because 
The Ugly Vegetables has a cameo appearance in 
The Year of the Dog, but because I've been visiting this school for so long that I am now seeing 4th Graders who I saw as Kindergartners! A true 
growing up with my books! 
And 
every year, the 4th Graders prepare storyboards illustrating their favorite "small story" in 
The Year of the Dog. Here are some of them--aren't they great?
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
I hope I get to see them again next year!