Polacco will visit second and third grades at 8:30 a.m., kindergarten and first grade at 9:45 a.m., and fourth and fifth grades at 1 p.m.
The staff and students have been preparing for months for the visit, with art that reflects the stories Polacco writes, a third-grade author study on her books and reflecting her work on school bulletin boards.
Polacco's presentations are not those of a typical storyteller; they deal not only with her books, but also her learning disabilities, her family, heroic teachers in her life and the pain suffered from teasing. She reveals very personal emotional issues while having a lot of fun remembering family.
Newfield Elementary School is located at 345 Pepper Ridge Road in Stamford.
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