I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories
Author: Sam Swope
“Swope’s marvelous, moving book revives the teaching memoir . . . And takes it to new realms of tenderness, insight and humanity.” -Phillip LopateIn 1995, writer Sam Swope gave a workshop to a third-grade class in a Queens school bursting at the seams with kids from around the world. So enchanted was he with his twenty-eight students that he “adopted” the class for three….Read More
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