Author reading session. How tricky can it be?

 

If it's online and you're doing it from home, it can be a bit tricky. 

You need to find another space if you work from an open workspace.

Set up in your bedroom, maybe?

Next you'll have to fuss around with the lighting so you won't scare anyone. 

Then, do practice runs to perfect your reading to coordinate with your slide deck of images - without being carried away by the story. (This may turn out a bit like the first time you learned to dance.)

That done, you may suddenly notice your greasy face in the 'practice' Google Meet window. 

This is when you desperately go hunting for a carbolic soap with lots of coal tar. You don't want someone thinking you just came in from fixing your car.

Now that you're set, there just may be one thing you didn't think of. At all...

If you're reading aloud a story you've told your kid - at an online session for a dozen kids your own kids age - be prepared for a siege outside your shut bedroom door.  

"That's my storeeee... I want to hear it too... Dadeeee..." thump, thump, bang, bang. 

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Thank you Stepping Stone Montessori School, Chennai. I absolutely enjoyed reading from Adventures of Ella Elephant to the little ones.