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Conozca a Gigi |
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Conozca a Gigi Hola, soy Gigi Morales David. Soy autora de libros de niños. Yo nací en Jacksonville, Florida. Hablo con fluencia el espanol y estoy orgullosa de mis raices Cubanas. Crecí rodeada de familia especialmente primos que han sido la inspiración de gran parte de mis cuentos y poemas. Empecé a escribir poesias cuando todavia era una niña. Mi mamá Georgina envió a Cuba sus poesias donde su abuelo los interpretó poeticamente en espanol. Muchos de mis poemas aparecen en libros como Creating Readers with Poetry escrito por Dr. Nile Stanley. Además de escribir he sido maestra de pre-primaria y primaria. También fue Sub-Directora y Directora de un colegio de primaria. Actualmente doy clases en la Universidad de North Florida a futuro maestros. Peter and the Silent Siren , The Little Red Envelopes y Just Mollie and Me son los primeros libros publicado para el proyecto – Life Act 2 Multigenerational Early Literacy Collaboration que patrocina la United Way. Éste proyecto fue diseñado para enseñarle a los niños las relaciones con personas mayors en su comunidad.
Estoy casada y tengo dos hijos maravillosos además de tres gatos de colores blanco y negro. Los nombres de mis gatos son Mo, Bo y Domino. Gigi en las noticias: Gigi has been invited to participate in the inaugural Cummer Museum Children's Book Fair on Saturday, Nov 20. See website www.cummer.org for more information. A special bookmark will be created for the event featuring an illustration detail from Gigi's book Just Mollie and Me.
Gigi recently completed a series of ferret friendship problem solving tales for children ages 4-6 as part of a friendship building program called Social Scenes that she developed with a colleague. She will be presenting this program at the National Association for the Education of Young Children conference in California on November 4.
Gigi has been invited for an author visit to Henry Kite Elementary on September 9 to kick off the schools million word campaign.
Gigi has been invited to participate in the Authors in Schools event of 2010 Florida Heritage Book Festival in St. Augustine
Gigi has been invited to participate in Jacksonville's premier book festival Much Ado About Books this February. Come visit Gigi at the Main Library downtown on Saturday, February 27. Visit www.muchadoaboutbooks.com/ for more information.
Gigi has been invited to participate in the Authors in Schools event of the 2009 Florida Heritage Book Festival in St. Augustine mid September. Gigi recently participated in the Young Authors Workshop at Country Day School, July 2009 - read more from the Florida Times-Union Gigi was invited for author visits to the following St. Johns County Schools: Hickory Creek, Durbin Creek, Julington Creek, and Cunningham Creek the week of April 27 - read more from the St. Augustine Record. Gigi presented at the Florida Reading Association September 2008 Conference on art-science-literacy integration for elementary teachers Gigi attended a Harvard Graduate School of Education Institute focused on the Project Zero Classroom July 27- Aug 2, 2008
Gigi attended the SCBWI Winter Writing conference in NYC Feb 2008. A collection of Gigi’s picture books, photographs, original illustrations and artifacts that reflect author visits in local public schools was displayed in the front case of the University of North Florida library (Jan 24- Feb 8, 2008).
Gigi was featured in the Winter 2008 University of North Florida Alumni Journal with her recently published picture book Just Mollie and Me. Gigi designed an arts-integration supplemental curriculum for the Cultural Council of Jacksonville that connected pieces of public art with academic content for use by students in Duval County - available as of Fall 2008. Gigi served as a member of the United Way of Northeast Florida Civic Engagement Visionary Task Force. Gigi was invited to Stockton Elementary for an author visit featuring The Little Red Envelopes. Gigi shared activities focused on her book Just Mollie and Me at the UNF Family Fest outdoor family literacy event Sunday, October 21. Gigi's book Just Mollie and Me was chosen as the October 2007 book of the month for Brookview Elementary. She made an author visit land was interview via closed circuit TV. Gigi presented again at the annual Young Writers Workshop for economically disadvantaged students at Jacksonville Country Day in April 2007. Stockton Elementary, Beauclare Elementary, St. Clair Evans Academy, Arlington Heights Elementary, and Alimicani Elementary in Duval County have chosen the Little Red Envelopes as their Book of the Month. Gigi visited Alimicani and Arlington Heights Elementary February 2007. Sheffield Elementary in Duval County chose Gigi's book The Little Red Envelopes as the book of the month for their school. The book of the month is read by all classes and activities are planned for the school inspired by the book. Many children wrote book responses and put them in red mailing envelopes to Gigi. Some classes had made dragon masks. It was a great visit! Gigi was the featured speaker at the September 2006 meeting of the Jacksonville Society of Children Book Writer's and Illustrators. Gigi was a featured author at the UNF Family Fest an outdoor family literacy event on October 8, 2006 on the UNF Nature Trails. Gigi presented at the Florida Reading Association conference October 2006 on Visual Arts and Literacy. Gigi in the News:
Channel 4 Morning Show - 4/26/06
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