Alaskan Authors

Authors Name	Title of book(s)	Target Audience
Larry Dane Brimner	Trick or Treat, Old Armadillo; Birmingham Sunday; We Are One: The story of Bayard Rustin	Pre-K/K to Middle-School
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Fee to visit 1 or multiple locations:	$1.000 (Negotiable)
Travel expenses:	R/T airfare from Tucson, AZ, plus lodging
Dates not available:	Flexible
E-mail:	Phone:	Web Address:
LDB@BRIMNER.COM	520-514-2445	www.brimner.com
Biography:
Larry Dane Brimner is an author of more than 150 children's titles, ranging from early readers and picture books to award-winning, hard-hitting nonfiction for middle grades and up.
Authors Name	Title of book(s)	Target Audience
Bret Dillingham	Raven Day, Performances Literacy through Story Telling	K-8
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Fee to visit 1 or multiple locations:	Negotiable
Travel expenses:	RT airfare from Juneau, housing, food
Dates not available:
E-mail:	Phone:	Web Address:
brett@brettdillingham.com	(907) 586-1643	www.brettdillingham.com
Biography:
Brett Dillingham is a world-class storyteller who teaches in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa. He teaches workshops on Performance Literacy where students write and perform their own stories and poems to real audiences.
Authors Name	Title of book(s)	Target Audience
Mike Dillingham	Rivers, Diary of a Blind Racing Sled Dog, Through the Eyes of a Blind Dog, Rivers, Book 3, Unknown Trails	While written at the 4th grade level, any dog lover should enjoy the books
Title of series:	Rivers Series
Fee to visit 1 or multiple locations:	No fee if books are pre-sold by the inviting school. Sales material will be provided. Books are sold for approximately 40 and signed by the author. $150 per day for no sales events.
Travel Expenses:	Included in fee if school location is in Anchorage
Dates not available:	Most dates are available. Please call or e-mail to check date availability
E-mail:	Phone:	Web Address:
rivers@riversbooks.com	(907)357-4524	www.riversbooks.com
Please visit our web site for a list of workshops conducted by the author
Biography:
Mike Dillingham was born in a blinding snowstorm in New York City. When Mike’s mom went into labor, Mike’s dad, a New York City Police Offer, was on duty. The fire that night in the first floor restaurant of the 6-story building where they lived only added ambiance to the event of Mike’s birth, and served as an omen of the adventures to come. So how did a New York City kid, born in a blizzard, end up in Alaska? Well, besides the dogs, Alaska’s beauty, tranquility, and privacy were a natural magnet for Mike after he retired from the Air Forces. Mike has traveled to many parts of Alaska and wrote parts of the books in places like Juneau, Ketchikan, Bethel, Naknek, King Salmon, Fairbanks, Palmer, Wasilla, and Anchorage. When asked why he wrote those books, Mike replied, “For Rivers, for the dogs, and especially for the kids.”
Authors Name	Title of book(s)	Target Audience
Judy Ferguson	Alaska's First People, Alaska's Little Chief, Alaska's Secret Door, Bridges to Statehood, Blue Hills, Parallel Destinies, Windows to the Land, An Alaskan Native Story
Title of series:	Alaska history, indigenous cultures
Fee to visit 1 or multiple locations:	$450 per day plus book sales
Travel Expenses:	Gas for Fairbanks and vicinity; air fair and lodging for Anchorage, Kenai, Bush
Dates not available:	Spring is best: Februray-March but open to discussion
E-mail:	Phone:	Web Address:
outpost99737@gmail.com	(907)895-4101	http://alaska-highway.org/delta/outpost
Please visit our web site for a list of workshops conducted by the author
Biography:
I have lived in the Alaska Bush since 1968 and have raised three children with boat and dog sled access only. I freelance for the Anchorage Daily news and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. I specialize in Alaska history and our indigenous cultures. I studied at the University Alaska Los Angeles, University of Oklahoma and Colorado College. I perform the voice of the Alaska People. I have featured leaders from al of our indigenous cultures and our notable Alaskans of Yugoslavian derivation: Stepovich, Hajdujovich, Peratrovich, Dapcevich,Begich, Butrovich, among others who tell our story from before territorial days through statehood into today. Nicola Kocic outstanding artwork in my children’s books and the maps on every page are an excellent way of learning all our indigenous culture, from the Aleutians, through Southeast, around the coast and down through the Interior.
Authors Name	Title of book(s)	Target Audience
Sharon Kelly	Exercises for the Hot Tube, Pool and Spa and Food for Wet Fingers
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E-mail:	Phone:	Web Address:
aaatours@ptialaska.net	(907) 272-8644
Biography:
Enjoys interaction with preschool-graduate level students as well as adult groups. Author/publisher of 14 "how-to" books on hot tubs, spas, swimming pools and more.
Authors Name	Title of book(s)	Target Audience
Patrick J. Lewis	And the Soldiers Sang, Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers, Take Two, A Celebration of Twins, Edgar Allan, Poe's Pie, Classified Poems in Math Puzzles, Thunder before Lightning, Poems for the Civil Righteous, World Rat Day, Odd Holiday Poems (forthcoming)	K - 5
Title of series:	Tugg & Teeny (3 book series)
Fee to visit 1 or multiple locations:	$1800 + expenses per one day school visit
Travel Expenses:	Airfare from Port Columbus (Ohio) International; hotel, meals
Dates not available:
E-mail:	Phone:	Web Address:
jplewis42@aol.com	(614) 839-5940
Biography:
I have published 70 children's poetry and picture books to date with Knopf Atheneum, Dial, Harcourt, Little Brown, National Geographic, Creative Editions, Chronicle Books, Scholastic, Candlewick, and others. And I was recently given the 2010-2011 NCTE Excellence in Children's Poetry Award, announced every three years.
Authors Name	Title of book(s)	Target Audience
Deb Vanasse	Distant Enemy, Out of the Wilderness, Under Alaska's Midnight Sun, Totem Tale, Alaska Animal Babies, Picture This, Alaska, Lucy's Dance	K-8
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Fee to visit 1 or multiple locations:	$125 per hour; 2-hour minimum
Travel Expenses:	Based in Anchorage; no travel or per diem required
Dates not available:
E-mail:	Phone:	Web Address:
debvanasse@gmail.com	(907) 388-9303	www.debvanasse.com
Biography:
Deb Vanasse is the author of several books for children and adults, including the Junior Literary Guild selection A Distant Enemy.  Her most recent book is Lucy’s Dance, published by the University of Alaska Press for June 2011 release.
Authors Name	Title of book(s)	Target Audience
Alice Wright	Alaskan Animals, We love you!	K - 3
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Fee to visit 1 or multiple locations:	$500 per week, $250 per day or $50 an hour
Travel expenses:	Contact author
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E-mail:	Phone:	Web Address:
ajwrite@gci.net	(907)243-3056
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