Author Book Signings & Conference Exhibits

Since Snickerdoodle”™ books premiered at Book Expo in 2005, winning the Mom's Choice Award, the author has done bookstore appearances, book signings/storytimes, and school visits in the Washington, DC metro area, and she has exhibited Snickerdoodle at professional conferences for teachers, school library media specialists, and book festivals in several states.

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On the Road with Snickerdoodle

Book Signings:

• The Storytellers Children's Bookstore, Occoquan, VA
• Amazement Square, Rightsmire Children's Museum, Lynchburg, VA
• Aladdin's Lamp Children's Bookstore, Arlington, VA
• Borders Express, Fairfax, VA
• Barnes and Noble stores, Northern Virginia

Book Festivals:

• Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville
• St. Petersburg, FL Festival of Reading
• Decatur, GA Book Festival
• Texas Book Festival, Austin

Professional Conferences and Book Trade Shows:

• Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI)
• Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers
• Virginia Early Childhood Education Association
• Book Expo America (New York City, Washington, DC)
• American Library Association Midwinter Show (Seattle)
• American Association of School Librarians
• Chicago Toy & Game Fair
• Virginia Library Association
• Virginia Educational Media Association
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• National Storytelling Conference
• Texas Library Association

Book Donations:

• National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, Abilene, TX
• First Book (Washington, DC): National nonprofit literacy advocacy/outreach organization providing new books to low-income families with young children
• The Volunteer Center (Torrance, CA): Hurricane Katrina special relief fund, and Operation Teddy Bear
• The Reading Connection (Arlington, VA): Literacy program for young children in 13 homeless shelters in DC metro area and Northern Virginia
• The Children's Book Project (San Francisco, CA): Literacy outreach for at-risk kids.
• Literacy-Leamos Project (New Mexico): Literacy outreach project for at-risk kids.
• People-to-People Ambassador Program: Delegation of professional storytellers to Russia, with visits to children's schools
• Libraries: Boston, Massachusetts; Fairfax County, VA; Loudoun County, VA; Habersham County, GA
• Schools: Selected preschools in Northern Virginia; Lab schools (early childhood teacher training programs) at Stephens College, Columbia, MO, and at The Principia Preschool, St. Louis, MO.

Arrange an Author Visit!

Snickerdoodle™ author Clare Grosgebauer welcomes inquiries from bookstores, libraries, and schools regarding book signings, author visits, and storytelling events with children. If you wish to schedule an author visit, please be specific about your preferred date and time (afternoons are best, Fridays-Sundays), the type of event you are planning (groups with under 30 children preferred). Clare can do a book signing, storytime presentation including doing the "rap" with children (providing free balloons and stickers and a poster or coloring/ creative writing activity handout sheet and follow-up resources for teachers); or she can participate in a panel of children's authors/ women entrepreneurs/or independent publishers. You can contact Clare by e-mail at snickerdoodle@erols.com Or call (703) 352-0226 and leave a message. (*Best time to reach her is after 4:30pm EST weekdays.) See an interview with author Clare Grosgebauer at www.thereadingtub.com