Pop-Up Author Lester L. Laminack

Join us for a Pop-Up with author Lester L. Laminack! He’ll be in store with his children’s book Three Hens, a Peacock, and the Enormous Egg! 

Come meet Lester, hear more about his work, and get a copy Saturday morning from 10am to noon!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Farm animals rescue an enormous egg from the road and then must figure out how to care for the mysterious creature. What could possibly be inside this egg and why is it taking so long to hatch?

Lester Laminack returns with a delightfully funny sequel to his barnyard story of three hens and a peacock. This time the animals decide to work together to rescue an enormous egg that falls from a truck in the road in front of their farm. Working together is, however, not without challenges when three bossy hens are involved.

The animals have no idea what is in the egg and have never seen one so big. But over the course of trying to protect it and hatch it, they find themselves quite smitten with it, each imagining that what’s in the egg is a version of themselves.

An unexpectedly heartwarming ending leaves the animals speechless when they meet their new ward and learn who among them is the greatest nurturer of all.

This bestselling creative team delivers another amusing picture book about life on a sleepy farm. This one with a lot of heart, too.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lester L. Laminack is Professor Emeritus from department of Birth-Kindergarten, Elementary and Middle Grades Education, at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina where he received two awards for excellence in teaching [the Botner Superior Teaching Award and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award].

Lester is now a full-time writer and consultant working with schools throughout the United States. He is an active member of the National Council of Teachers of English and served three years as co-editor of the NCTE journal Primary Voices and as editor of the Children’s Book Review Department of the NCTE journal Language Arts (2003-2006). He also served as a teaching editor for the magazine Teaching K-8 and wrote the Parent Connection column (2000-2002). He is a former member of the Whole Language Umbrella Governing Board, a former member of the Governing Board and Secretary of the North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children, and a former member of the Board of Directors for the Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking. He served as the Basic Reading Consultant to Literacy Volunteers of America from 1987 through 2001. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of Our Children’s Place [www.ourchildrensplace.com] and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Region A Partnership for Children in western North Carolina.

His academic publications include several books including:

Reading with Children (Literacy Volunteers of America), Learning with Zachary (Scholastic), Spelling in Use (NCTE), Tutor: A Collaborative Approach to Literacy Instruction (Literacy Volunteers of America), Volunteers Working with Young Readers (NCTE), The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (NCTE), Learning Under the Influence of Language and Literature (Heinemann), Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum (Heinemann), Cracking Open the Author’s Craft (Scholastic), Climb Inside a Poem (Heinemann), Unwrapping the Read Aloud (Scholastic), The Classroom Library Book (Classroom Library Company), Bullying Hurts (Heinemann), The Writing Teacher’s Troubleshooting Guide (Heinemann), Writers ARE Readers (Heinemann), The Ultimate Read-Aloud Resource: Making Every Moment Intentional and Instructional With Best Friend Books Reading to Make a Difference (Heinemann), Critical Comprehension (Corwin),

In addition he has several articles published in journals such as The Reading Teacher, Early Years, Science and Children, Language Arts, Teaching pre-K/8, Primary Voices, and Young Children.

Lester is also the author of several children’s books: The Sunsets of Miss Olivia Wiggins (Peachtree Publishers), Trevor’s Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth (Peachtree Publishers), Saturdays and Tea Cakes (Peachtree Publishers), Jake’s 100th Day of School (Peachtree Publishers), Snow Day! (Peachtree Publishers), Three Hens and a Peacock (Peachtree Publishers), The King of Bees (Peachtree Publishers), and Three Hens, a Peacock, and an Enormous Egg.