Author and former CCSD administrator Mike Burns visited MED on Friday to talk to our students about being an author and read his children’s book Nervous Rex to the entire school. In Nervous Rex, an anxious young dinosaur meets a rather chill frog, who teaches him strategies to help him overcome his fears. Mr. Burns talked about how he came up with the idea, his process for writing the book and working with an illustrator and editors, and gave a sneak peek at his next book to be published in the Nervous Rex series.
After the assemblies, Mr. Burns worked with our third graders to develop their own stories!