PAST YEARS.....1995 -2006
Newtown Elementary Library's past honored guests have included so many talented and excellent models that have shaped our school in both what we read and how we write. Our first principal, Mr. Mark Klein, a reader and writer in his own right, made this school a reading and writing school from day one. With leadership and insight on his part, trust in his creative and multi-talented staff plus the love of children, Newtown's library evolved into a resource room filled with tech tools and treasured books.
In order to ensure Mark Klein's vision we brought in the brightest, and best authors and illustrators from all over the US and the world during these past nineteen years. One of Mr. Klein's mottos from Emerson is, "Your work should be in praise of what you love." Looking at the selection of books we have in this library and our author/illustrator wall it is obvious that we love what we do and it shows.
1995-1996 December 8, 1995 (K-6) Denisen, Margy Burns Knight, and Ann Sibley O'Brien. These three talented ladies composed music, drew pictures and set the words and pictures to music in all grades all in one day.
1996-1997 April 24 and 25, 1997 (K-6) Robert SanSouci *
1997-1998 February 9,1998 (Grade 3) Cheryl Harness *
April 1, 1998 (K-4) Emily Arnold McCully *
May 13,1998 (Grades 5-6) Richard Peck
1998-1999 February 19, 1999 (6) Deborah Heiligman
April 19 and 20, 2000 (1-6) David Wisniewski
1999-2000 March 28,2000 (K-2) Jose Aruego
April 27,2000 (3-6) Michael Dooling
May 25, 2000 (2-3) Shana Corey and Malory Loehr
June 6, 2000 (K-6) Frank Murphy *
2000-2001 September 26,2000 (4) Ben Baglio
November 2, 2000 (6) Hudson Talbott and Japp Penraat *
April 2, 2001 (4-6) Steven Kroll
May 11,2001 (K-3) Floyd Cooper
June 2, 2001 (2) Malory Loehr
2001-2002 October 9, 2001 (3) Catherine Ann Cullen
January 8, 2002 (4-6) Laurie Halse Anderson
March 13, 2002 (1-3) Lindsey Barrett George
April 2002 (2) Neilson Camp/ Edward Hicks
May 10, 2002 (3-5) Jon Agee
May 17, 2002 ( 2) Demi
2002-2003 November 22, 2002 (4-6) Hudson Talbott *
May 8, 2003 (3) Jon Smith
May 14, 2003 (K-3) J.Patrick Lewis
2003-2004
October 2, 2003 (1-6) Frank Murphy *
November 11, 2003 (K-3) Gail Gibbons
November 20, 2003 (4) Laura Knorr
March 10, 2004 (4-6) Robert SanSouci *
April 14, 2004 (2) Mortica Gerstein
June 13, 2004 (1) Mary Ann Hoberman
2004-2005 October 13, 2004 (4) Graeme Base
April 4, 2005 (4) Philip Ardagh
April 20, 2005 (5,6) Jack Gantos *
April 20, 2005 (K) Debi Gliori
April 21, 2005 (1-4) Frank Murphy *
May 5, 2005 ( K-3) James Howe
2005-2006 November 17,2005 (4) Steve Jenkins
March 29, 2006 (5,6) Jennifer Armstrong
May 22, 2006 (1-3) Judy Schachner
* Authors/Ilustators returned for a second visit.
2006 up until the present are on the LIbrary web page.