Author Website: http://www.josephdagnese.com

Author Address (e.g., City, State, Country): Asheville, NC USA

Genres: (see list on Directions for Authors page) biography, history, math, picture books

Presentations: The author has written two books appropriate for children: Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci, and Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame & Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence.

Presentations include...
1. Question and Answer Session
2. All About Leonardo Fibonacci and the Fibonacci Sequence
3. All About the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
4. All About Being A Book Author

Audiences: For Fibonacci book: Grades 2 to Grade 8; For Signers of Declaration of Independence Book: Grades 4 through 12; Classrooms, School Libraries, Public Libraries

Available Times: Weekdays and Weekends; please write to schedule a good time.

No recording of Skype Sessions without permission from the author.

No Cost Meet the Author Visit: 10-20 minutes

In-Depth Visit Length: 20+ minutes to 45 minutes

In-Depth Visit Cost: $50 for 30 to 45-minute Fibonacci visit; price includes autographed book and DVD of Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci.
For Signing Their Lives Away visit, price to be determined.

Prerequisites: Students should be introduced to the author's book(s) prior to the Skype session. It would be wonderful if students developed their own questions for the author. The book you share with your students should be appropriate to the subject matter. For example, the Fibonacci book should be shared with math class, the Signers book with classes studying U.S. history.

Contact Information: author@blockheadbook.com

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