The Reading Bug

Ages 4-8 will enjoy this storytime the most, but all are welcome

Author Tim Myers will talk about his children's books, then tell a magical story.  Be prepared, just as with the fairies in the old days, you just might be spirited away!  

Tim Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and lecturer in education and English.  His Good Babies (2005) earned a strong review from Kirkus.  Basho and the River Stones (2004) was a Junior Library Guildselection, got excellent reviews in The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and a starred review in SchoolLibrary Journal; it was also a NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book 2005, and is beingadapted and performed as a play by the Bret Harte Elementary School After-School Theater Project, Burbank, CA.

Tanuki’s Gift (2003) got an excellent boxedreview with art in the New York Times and was chosen as a “Best Book of the Year” by NickJr. Magazine, among other honors.  Basho and the Fox (2000) was read aloud on NPR by Daniel Pinkwater, made the New York Times bestseller list for children’s books, and was chosen as a SmithsonianNotable Children’s Book, a Children’s Book Council “Not Just for Children Anymore” selection, and a Bank Street Irma Black Honor Book, among other honors.  Tim’s placed numerouspieces with top children’s magazines (Cricket group, Cobblestone group, Appleseeds, Storyworks, Highlights, New Moon)—won a national poetry contest judged by John Updike and has an adult poetry chapbook coming out—won a prize in the international Writers of the Future Contest for science fiction/fantasy—and has published much other fiction, non-fiction and poetry for kids and adults.  He was a SCBWI Golden Kitepicture-book judge for 2002 and has a new children’s book in press. 

Tim spent fourteen years as a classroom teacher in the States and overseas, has fourteen years’ university experience and has been a professional storyteller for over 25 years.

His wife directs the reading program at SCU, his older son is working on a Ph.D. in rhetoric in New Mexico, his younger son is in gradschool in Montana, and his daughter is a book-gluttonous UC Berkeley student and "Daily Californian" blogger.

Tim is the oldest of eleven children and can actually whistle and hum at the same time.