• Monday, Nov. 1, Morning: at Northridge Elementary, with James Dennis Elementary bringing students by bus
• Monday, Nov. 1, Afternoon: at Central Elementary, with Central Intermediate students walking to the presentation and D. D. Kirkland Elementary students traveling by bus
• Tuesday, Nov. 2, Morning: at Hilldale Elementary
• Tuesday, Nov. 2, Afternoon: at Wiley Post Elementary, with Tulakes Elementary bringing students by bus
• Wednesday, Nov. 3, Morning: at Harvest Hills Elementary
• Wednesday, Nov. 3, Afternoon: at Western Oaks Elementary, with Lake Park Elementary bringing students by bus
• Thursday, Nov. 4, Morning: at Coronado Heights. Elementary with Rollingwood Elementary bringing students by bus
• Thursday, Nov. 4, Afternoon: at Will Rogers Elementary

Janet Stevens is the award-winning author and illustrator of Tops and Bottoms, My Big Dog and The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon. Tops and Bottoms  was named a Caldecott Honor Book and an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. It also received the National Parenting Publications Gold Award, a Parents’ Choice Honor Award and was named a Booklist Editors’ Choice.

Susan Stevens Crummel was a high school math teacher for 30 years before leaving teaching to write full time. She writes and collaborates with her sister, Janet. Together they have published Cook-a –Doodle Doo, The Dish Ran Away With the Spoon and Jackalope. Cook-a-Doodle-Doo was Winner of 2001 Texas Bluebonnet Award and a 2001 Florida Children’s Book Honor Award.

More information about Janet Stevens can be found on her website or on a page of childrenslit.com

More information about Susan Stevens Crummel may be found on her website.

An interview with both authors may be found on the Harcourt Books site.

The total cost of the visits is $11,480. One-third of the funding will be covered by the Putnam City Public Schools Foundation through a donation from the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma City, with the remaining two-thirds covered by participating schools.