Visit the Kid's EBook branch of the
Leaping Literacy Online Library!
!
We'll publish Your StorEBook in pdf & video for your school/library site
and/or here at Laurie's Stories in the Leaping Literacy Online Library.
We offer this service in PlayShops in conjunction with performances.

StorEBook Publishing Program:
We offer playshops and ebook creation/publishing integration with our performances.
Most often, you will prepare student work ahead of time and we will bring the technology!
We have guidelines for you to follow & we plan ahead carefully to insure optimum success!
For more in-depth writing & illustrating and individual student pages/books, several days or a week of playshops is needed. However, we can publish a school book with a day of BookTelling performances & read it on the big screen at Family Literacy Night!

Our Your StorEBook Publishing Guidelines at a Glance:
1. Pick a theme or subject
2. Each student, team, class etc. contributes
1 page of combined text & illustration.
Landscape pages fill the screen best!
3. Keep text to a minimum; usually only 1-3 sentences.
4. Illustrations are best when the are large & colorful.
5. Don't forget a title page & possibly a back pg. with credits.
6. If possible, convert your pages into jpgs before our visit;
that way we can likely record the audio book with your students
& spend time with your students putting the eBook together with pdf & video.
7. To convert your pages to jpgs: use a digital camera or
scan them into a computer using your printer/scanner.
Scanned images are much higher quality than digital pictures.
Images should be named as the pages in order; i.e. GoGreen01, GoGreen02, etc.
8. Number of pages/books depends on our time together;
make sure we stay in touch with careful pre-planning so everyone is happy!!

Find more info in our General Guidelines PDF or Word Doc downloads
for creating & publishing Your StorEBook!

"Diverse, age appropriate programs, infectious-has kids rhyming, using alliteration, great expression,word play, out the door and weeks beyond the performance! And the Student eBook Publishing Program! Such a dynamic way to involve older kids and use as a springboard for more writing and reading projects!"
~ Julie Kurtz, School Library Media Specialist, Canaseraga Central School, NY

Librarian Julie Kurtz at Canaseraga Central School did a perfect job of following our guidelines so that we were easily able to do grade level performance assemblies
& their eBook creation in 1 school day. Here it is in multiple formats:

Why We Read PDF Download w/ audio book embedded
Student narration plays on each book page as it is clicked open.
PDF Download w/ book video & book pages embedded
Watch the book video, then read through all the pages at your own pace!

An overview glance at a few sample pages:

Here's 2 Sample EBooks We Produced in Performance/PlayShop:

A School Book with K-5th grades, We Love Reading!
In Power Point:

An Original Summer Reading Program Book in PDF w/Audio
written, illustrated & narrated by Carson City Library Youth:


Power PDF is their illustrated, narrated book!
As for " ... the e-book creation, that was so cool! That computer program is a very handy one, and once we got our brain juices flowing, the kids came up with the neatest pictures to go with their story. I'm sure this was a new project for each & every one of them ... What a unique learning experience for all- both the writers and the group creating the illustrations to go with their story." Amber Sady, Youth Services, Carson City Library, Carson City, NV

Find lots more (class) books in our Kid's EBook branch of the
Leaping Literacy Online Library!


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Because children deserve play time and literacy lasts a lifetime.