I usually start making my first school visits of the year in October.
Everyone’s settled into their routines and, ironically, that’s about when it’s time to shake ’em up a bit.
So, what a delight, this year, to be bearing a new book.
Don’t get me wrong; I love my Pocket Book visits.
I do.
It’s just that I have done a lot of them.
Truly.
You don’t want to know.
And I’m fond of my pocketed fishing vest — my key prop these last few years — but I’m ready to leave it at home for a bit.
Last week I visited a preschool with All the World.
Terra Luz is an especially lovely and intentional place, and I was honored to have been invited.
Although it was gray and rainy outdoors, we met on the covered patio.
I sat in a rocking chair that looked as if it’d been decorated by Demeter.
I sat surrounded by parents and plants and a curious spider.
And then there were three-year-olds.
Quite a lot of them.
Even brighter and more promising than that perfect rocking chair.
(My kids are older now and I forget this age.
It is like they live with one less layer of skin, so alert and open and tender and expressive are they.)
Usually after school visits I share a few of the funny things kids say, but this time I’d like to show you what it looked and felt like. The passionate and creative head of school, Andrea Gaudin Tiche, is (among many things) a soulful photographer. These images are hers:
(All images property of Andrea Gaudin Tiche, Terra Luz Preschool)
Aren’t those just delicious?
Sometimes I cannot believe my luck…
Namaste.
Isn’t Terra Luz a magical place? My Mia truly enjoyed your visit last week. She said she named your shell, sang the abc’s and squeezed her friends hands. I’m not sure what all that means, but she was beaming 🙂 Thank you for sharing your phenomenal book with the world. We read it nightly….more than once 😉
Oh, lovely! Thank you so much, and tell Mia I said hello!
What lovely faces and moments!
I know! They were really captured, weren’t they?
Look at those rapt faces! What joy, what fun, for you and them. I wonder if we can add these pictures to the Cheerios voting page????
Sara. You are a marketing maven 🙂
Those images are a gift in themselves. I hope you’re keeping a scrapbook.
Believe it or not, these are just about the first photos I’ve ever gotten from a school visit. They may be my ENTIRE scrapbook — which wouldn’t be half bad…
Gorgeous and beautiful. What faces!
I know — dreamy, right?
Tanita Says 🙂
Wow! Now, seeing all those faces as the story unfolds isn’t something you get when you write chapter books and up — but we can only hope the souls of our older readers look a little bit as magical as these. Looks like this was one awesome circle time.
This is gorgeous, Liz. Congrats! I bet the entire visit was art of one kind or another:>)
I love these pictures! So many adorable faces!
What a treat! I want to read to those kids, too.
Oh, what lovely series of photos! I’m so happy for you!!!