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TITLES
For Children and Young Adult Readers:
- Songs Around the World for Young Voices (DVD, available August, 2007)
- Writing and Fishing (Muscadine Lines, Summer, 2007)
- Katie Dee and Katie Haw: Letters From a Texas Farm Girl (Cotton Publishing Co. 1995, 2003, 2007)
- Dear Katie Dee: More Letters From a Texas Farm (Cotton Publishing Co. 2003)
- Jenny (University of Texas Pan American, 1995)
- A Peachtree Haunting — A One Act Play for High School Students (Dekalb College Press, 1992)
- The Day We Sold the Farm (Southwest Review, 1967)
For Educators:
- Adjuncts: Let's Have More of Them! (The Teaching Professor, May, 2005 Reprinted in Faculty Focus, July, 2005)
- Creating a True Discussion (The Teaching Professor, March, 2005)
- Joe Reese Wants to Have a Conference (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May, 1989)
- What do College Teachers Do For a Living? (Southline Magazine, February, 1988)
- A Closer Look at Nestroy's Source (Modern Austrian Literature, 1990)
Humor for General Audiences:
- Le Renouvillier — the Restaurant Review We've Always Wanted to See! (Wild Violet Magazine, August, 2007)
- The Creation of Two Bumper Stickers: An Admission (Ken*Again Magazine, Summer, 2007)
- Lunacy: A Play for our Times (performed by Arts West Ohio, July, 2005)
- Big Bucks, Big Brother Newt (Atlanta Constitution, 1990)
- A Moveable Feast — If You Use the Drive-Through Window (Atlanta Magazine, 1988)
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The Culture and Grammar Series Software
- The Harlem Renaissance: Sentence Fragments
- Young Langston Hughes: Subject Verb Agreement
- Hispanic Traditions, The Culture of New Mexico: Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
- Miami-Cuban Culture; Run-On Sentences (Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999)
AWARDS
- Outstanding Teacher Award, Southern Methodist University, 1975
- Outstanding Teacher Award, Indiana University, 1983
GRADES
Pre-K through 12. Parent, Teacher Workshops also available.
LENGTH
- Younger Students (ages 3-6): approximately 25 minutes
- First Grade through Third Grade: approximately 40 minutes
- Fourth Grade and Over: approximately 50 minutes, or the length of one class period
I have also done evening performances for parents and students. Such performances, featuring singing and storytelling, can last up to 1-1/2 hours.
AUDIENCE SIZE
Anywhere from an individual class (10-20 students) up to a full auditorium.
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I am happy to work with larger audiences, doing storytelling, folk singing, and question/answer periods. I am bilingual and also provide storytelling in Spanish.
The Craft of Fiction: Villains, Heroes, and Settings
These are writing workshops lasting anywhere from 1/2 day to 3 days, depending on time available.
Storytelling: The Fabric of a Culture
(A brief residency period — one week is needed.)
I will be doing this for the first time this fall. Fourth and fifth grade students will focus on the history of storytelling, and the importance of the Griot as not only entertainer but historian and lawgiver.
Stories from Katie Dee
Storytelling from the Katie Dee novels (including the ever-popular "Possum" story). I tailor these stories for children as young as preschool age, and as old as high school age.
Songs from Around the World
Folksongs in Spanish, French, German, Yiddish, Thai, and English, for children of all ages, including those with learning disabilities, such as autism.
A WORD FROM JOE REESE
"I have to come clean with all of you: I've never considered myself 'a children's book' writer, nor do I consider the Katie Dee books 'children's literature.' I'm simply an inveterate teacher, who loves to talk about books, and who has had the good fortune to write some of them himself. As for the people I work with and talk to as a visiting author, they may be in preschool, they may be in third or fourth grade, and they may technically be 'children'; but to me they're still 'students' first, and the only difference between them and the rest of us (despite a few minor things regarding size) is that their imaginations are more vibrant, and they are still able, at the turn of a page, to be rafting with Huck Finn, or walking through the tall grass prairie with Laura Ingalls Wilder. Or, for that matter, to be chasing a Texas possum with Katie Hawkins!"
FEES
$500/day plus expenses.
SET-UP AND EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS
A microphone for large auditoriums.
AUTOGRAPHING
I love signing books for students, but I do have a slightly different method for doing it. I like to spend an entire day at a school, telling stories from the Katie Dee books, playing and singing songs, and talking with the students about the craft of writing. At the end of each period (I often do five or six presentations a day) I send home with students a small handout telling the price of the book, and asking how they would like it signed. Then I return the following day (there is no charge for this second day, of course), and sit in the library signing books for those who have decided to purchase. The reason for this is that there are always students who decide they want a book only after seeing (and hearing) the author in person.
LEARN MORE ABOUT JOE REESE
Joe Reese
11 Westfield Place
Athens, Ohio 45701
Phone: 740-593-7267
Alternate Phone: 740-591-9147
E-mail: katiedee@columbus.rr.com
Web Site:www.katiedee.com