Lindsay Leslie
Children's Author
Austin, TX
Website:
123-456-7890
Follow on Social Media:
Instagram: @lindsaylesliewrites​
Email: lindsaylleslie@gmail.com
About Lindsay
Lindsay Leslie is the award-winning author of GUS HEARTS THE BUS, SO YOU WANT TO BUILD A LIBRARY, DUSK EXPLORERS (an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award winner, Bank Street Best Book of 2021 with Outstanding Merit, and Amazon Editors’ Pick), NOVA THE STAR EATER, THIS BOOK IS SPINELESS, and ROCK & MOSS: THE PHYSICS OF FRIENDSHIP. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, sci-fi and fantasy novelist Ryan Leslie, two teenagers, and two fur-beasts (a.k.a. dogs).
General Author Visit Information
Grade Levels Visited: PreK-5​
Visit Formats: In-Person, Virtual ​
Travel Radius for In-Person Visits: I'll Travel!
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Visit Fee Range: FULL-DAY AUTHOR PROGRAM – $1,500 honorarium + travel fee (TBD) Includes three 45-60 minute presentations, including Q&A ADDITIONAL FOURTH SESSION – $500 HALF-DAY AUTHOR PROGRAM – $1,200 honorarium + travel fee (TBD) SINGLE PRESENTATION – $800 honorarium (travel fee waived, Austin metro only) SINGLE VIRTUAL PRESENTATION – $300 per half hour
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Travel Fee: Pricing depends on location and number of days. It’s best to reach out to Lindsay's booking agent at How Now Booking (click here)
Featured Books by Lindsay Leslie
When Gus and his family go on an outing and take the city bus to get there, Gus realizes he LOVES the bus. And from that moment on, Gus learns everything he can about buses and tries to turn every outing into a bus outing. Finally Gus gets the chance to ride a bus in The Big City--and gets the chance to show off what he knows.
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Author Lindsay Leslie puts the reader in charge as the architect of a fantastical library in this imaginative picture book celebrating libraries and the joys of reading.
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This ode to the timeless magic of summer evenings spent outside will remind kids of the fun and friends that wait just outside their doors and leave adults smiling with nostalgia for their own dusk explorations.
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Additional Author Visit Information
Lindsay and author Kari Lavelle (BUTT OR FACE? Series and ODE TO GRAPEFRUIT: HOW JAMES EARL JONES FOUND HIS VOICE) do school visits together and they are very interactive and engaging. It's an amazing value with two authors for the price of one! They offer two programs: BATTLE OF THE GENRES and BATTLE OF THE BIG FEELINGS.
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1. BATTLE OF THE GENRES: Fiction vs. Nonfiction
In this battle of the genres presentation, Lindsay and Kari engage kids in a fiction vs. nonfiction throw-down. Is one genre better and more exciting to read than the other? Are they really that different from each other? Kari and Lindsay go head-to-head and dive into the differences and similarities of fiction and nonfiction books and how they approach writing them. Spoiler alert: fiction has no bounds, but can very much be based in reality and sometimes pulled from an author’s experiences, while nonfiction can take a reader on a wild ride and explore a variety of topics—from wacky to serious.
2. BATTLE OF THE BIG FEELINGS
Drawing from the emotions of characters from their favorite books and their own experiences as writers, Kari and Lindsay empower kids in this interactive presentation to harness their own emotions to create beautiful things (while having fun in a game-centered presentation).
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Here’s how our 2024-25 school year looked by the numbers:
6,990 — # of students, ranging from PreK to 5th grade, we had the pleasure of presenting to
14 — # of schools/lit fests visited
39 — # of times we have presented
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