You're considering Walter's Artist-in-Residence Program? Wonderful! Walter offers an artist-in-residence program, tailored to fit the needs of students, school staff, and parents. This program is typically presented over a period of one week. To give you an idea of how we have structured these appearances, Walter spent one week at an elementary school in Manhattan Beach, California, and another week at schools in Twin Falls, ID, where he conducted assemblies and classroom workshops for a junior high and the elementary schools feeding into it. In March of 1998, he spent the better part of a week at St. Mark's School of Texas with 1st through 12th grade students. His classroom workshops were designed around the current curriculum for each class. Examples are: American Cultures; Historical Fiction and Storytelling for 5th graders; The Power of the American Folktale and the Storytelling Tradition for 5th graders; International Folktales for 6th graders The lower grades (1st - 4th) workshops were centered around Medieval Period, Tall Tales, Animals, Alaska, the Wilderness, and What Makes a Good Story. Walter's experience as a storyteller and as writer of Walter the Giant Storyteller's Giant Book of Giant Stories, along with the years of reading and re-reading over 8,000 books to prepare for Valerie & Walter's Best Books for Children, helps him to give kids a thorough understanding of how a good book is structured, showing them how to develop a story from beginning to end. Walter's fee for the artist-in-residence program is $1500 per day, and can include a mixture of student assemblies, classroom visits, staff in-service presentations, or parent presentations. Travel and related expenses are additional. Walter is totally flexible, and will enhance the teaching staff's current curriculum with his interactive style of student classroom presentations. We encourage teachers to be creative in their individual workshop requests, and those previously booking Walter to appear at their school, have really had a good time developing workshop topics for Walter. We welcome your questions and requests. Thank you for your interest. Go directly to the Request Form. Administrative Office: San Diego, California 760-752-9973 fax: 760-744-9273 email: kvhwgs@aol.com