The kids at my school are still talking about plastic tub toys, floating sneakers, the garbage patch, and reducing their use of plastics, thanks to a phenomenal author visit with Loree Griffin Burns this week.
Loree held the kids spellbound with her fascinating, high energy presentation on Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion. They’re hungry for more high-interest nonfiction now and are waiting (impatiently) for Loree’s next book on honeybees. Thanks,
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, for a great, great day with our students!
And a related note that writers, especially, will appreciate… Loree and I went out to dinner Sunday night to talk writing for a couple hours. We ended up at a Japanese steakhouse where they have hibachi tables. Our waitress came over at the end of the meal and remarked that they’d never, in the history of the restaurant, seen two people just keep gabbing away like we did while the guy at the grill was tossing knives and spatulas in the air. In our defense, we did pause to say “Oooh…Ahh….” when he made the flaming volcano out of the onion…
I’m a huge fan of the flaming onion volcano. I’m also a huge fan of Loree Griffin Burns!!!
Yes, but which do you like better, Luper, me or the onion?
(Just kidding, buddy. Thanks for the compliment!)
Thank you, Kate. I had such a good time … at school with your students and at the hibachi table with you and our crazy-good-but-ignored chef!
Loree
I was going to follow up my comment by saying I like you better, Loree, but I’d hate to lie on Kate’s blog!
The onion was awfully cool…
I feel a little guilty and think I will have to go back there with the kids so we can pay him proper respect.