TheRoomMom blog is part parenting tips and part teacher tips (with some snacky food and book ideas thrown in). Today, the teacher part of my blog is featured on the Teaching Blog Addict.

“Contacting Book Authors” is the featured activity in their weekly teacher freebie list. The best part is, I did not even know I had been selected!

If you need an activity to build a little excitement for any summer reading assignments you may have, try contacting the book author. We had great success last year. Here are a few of the authors who replied:

• Brian Selznick (Wonderstruck and Invention of Hugo Cabret)
• Tom Angleberger (Origami Yoda series)
• Leslie Connor (Crunch)
• Julie Edwards (Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles— letter was from her “fan mail coordinator”)
• J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter— form letter)
• Cressida Cowell (How to Train Your Dragon series)
• Annie Barrows (The Magic Half)
• Sheila Turnage (Three Times Lucky)
• Kate Klise (Dying to Meet You series)
• Patrick Carmen (Floors— took 9 months to receive a reply!)
• Erica Orloff (Magickeepers series)
• Obert Skye (Wonkenstein and Potterwookie)
• Lisa Schroeder (It’s Raining Cupcakes)
• Jacqueline Kelly (The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate)