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I've just visited with the students at Oak St School in New Jersey. And wow, what a creative community!

School librarian Sue Philhower greeted me in the parking lot as Lunch Lady!

PTO moms Elyse Rhead and Beth DiCesare "Vanna White" one of the many posters they created and plastered around school!

We are feeling incredibly grateful here in the Krosoczka house to be celebrating Halloween this evening. The hurricane's fury avoided us completely. Our hearts go out to all of the folks in the affected areas. And I feel lucky to even be home. I had been in Austin for the Texas Book Festival. I had already canceled Sunday's appearances, but was scheduled on a flight out on Sunday morning. On Saturday afternoon, while signing books with Dav Pilkey, Lisa McMann and Mac Barnett, I glanced at my phone and saw that Massachusetts was in a state of emergency. I took off to pack my bags and head to the airport and got on the last flight of the evening. Sadly, many of my Northeast author friends are still stuck in Austin. Not a bad city to be stuck in, but I would far rather be home with my kids. Not only to shelter them from the storm, but to decorate pumpkins like this:

My three year old drew this. So proud!

For Nora's birthday, her mom sneaked all of her Lunch Lady books from her room, mailed them to me and then Nora was presented with the entire LL collection, autographed on her big day.

This is the thank you note Nora sent. It is simply the best ever and it will hang in my studio to remind me of the kids reading my books!

Keep reading, Nora!

Sure, some of us make cupcakes. Some of us might collect book fair orders. Darrin Johnson takes out his table saw and makes wooden cutouts of picture book characters to inspire reading at Haggerty School in Cambridge, MA. He made an incredible display for Punk Farm. In fact, he made sure that each character was in proper scale to the others by studying the books.

I salute you, Mr. Johnson. I'm totally honored that you spent the time making these of my characters. I'm also hoping my daughter's school doesn't see this, because I will need to step up my game if they do...

With the demands of deadlines and fatherhood upon me, I've been pretty terrible about keeping up with the letters and art that have come in from kids. But I'm catching up and I'm getting back on track to share some of the amazing work that comes in.
Today I wanted to share with you this incredible comic created by Riley in Texas!

I had a great week of school visits in Merrimack, NH visiting with the students at Reeds Ferry, Mastricola and Thorntons Ferry Schools. Everyone went all out! Check out the Bagheads that arrived at my presentations:

I always love when kids come up with adventures for Lunch Lady to go on!

Here's Lunch Lady and the Toast Aliens by Foster:

Check out what the 5th graders at H. Gregg Elementary in Corning, NY made! These are unbelievably cool!

I had a great time running workshops at the Colorado Academy. With the Kindergartners, I ran workshops on drawing emotions on a character's face. I ran through all the basics—happy, sad, scared, mad. . .

And then I asked for suggestions from the kids. "What other kind of face could we draw?" I asked.

A kid in the front raised his hand. "A poker face!"

Check out this awesome drawing by Amiee! I visited Aimee's school virtually, so getting this drawing was especially cool.  It's just so neat to see that the kids are getting just as pumped up about writing and drawing with my virtual visits as they do with my in-person school visits.

Looks like Mrs. Peterson has her hands full!

Two more great LL gadget ideas by John L.!



Do you have a note or a drawing that you'd like to share? I would love to see them!
They can be emailed to me via [email protected] or mailed to:
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
PO Box 60155
Florence, MA 01062

Check out these great drawings by Frankie from San Antonio!





Do you have a note or a drawing that you'd like to share? I would love to see them!
They can be emailed to me via [email protected] or mailed to:
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
PO Box 60155
Florence, MA 01062

Look! More awesome LL gadgets by kids!





Do you have a note or a drawing that you'd like to share? I would love to see them!
They can be emailed to me via [email protected] or mailed to:
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
PO Box 60155
Florence, MA 01062

Here are some more great LL gadgets sent in by kids!



Do you have a note or a drawing that you'd like to share? I would love to see them!
They can be emailed to me via [email protected] or mailed to:
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
PO Box 60155
Florence, MA 01062

Check out this awesome drawing that was given to me a few weeks back at Coker Elementary in San Antonio. It's impressive, isn't it? Excellent use of yellow.



Do you have a note or a drawing that you'd like to share? I would love to see them!
They can be emailed to me via [email protected] or mailed to:
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
PO Box 60155
Florence, MA 01062

Check out this amazing drawing sent in from Jolena.


Jolena, I admire your talent as well! That reflection of Baghead in the puddle is amazing!


Do you have a note or a drawing that you'd like to share? I would love to see them!
They can be emailed to me via [email protected] or mailed to:
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
PO Box 60155
Florence, MA 01062