Dear Precious and Much-Adored Teachers and Librarians,

You brilliant people! Thank you for cracking open the glittery minds of our students on a daily basis. Much appreciated! We need both brilliant and glittery-minded people in the world.

To help you in your efforts, we can email you the wildly imaginative TEACHER'S GUIDE FOR THE ANYBODIES. Simply click here to make a request.

To go along with the grand publication of The Slippery Map, N.E. Bode has drummed up some BEASTLY WRITING PROMPTS! (Beware the spider wolves, snapping dirt clams, jelly roaches, and dart-spitting snakes...They may be coming soon to a classroom near you!)

To download the BEASTLY WRITING PROMPTS, click here!

To host an ANYBODY PARTY complete with GAMES, click here.

For more WILD WRITING RAMPAGE writing exercises, click here.

For bookmarks, note cards, door signs, click here.

For MORE wild reading and writing rampage tips including a defense of the reluctant reader (for parents and you!), click here.

For a (cheat-sheet) list on all of the books referenced in The Anybodies, click here.

To get a signed bookplate sticker made out to you (a freebie!) or to a glittery-minded kid with an upcoming birthday or some such, click here.

To Buy books straight from Harper Collins at a discount designed for schools and libraries, click here to send a request for information.

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BODE IN THE CLASSROOM

To get N.E. Bode into your classroom or to set up an interactive Question and Answer with N.E. Bode, send an email with your request by clicking here.

AWARDS

for a few
of our favorite schools...

Most Amazingly Inventive EVER! Hardee Junior High a school-wide read with hallways that made the book come alive, including a cricket attack! (Fearless leader: Louise Jones)

Biggest Brightest Audience

Rampello Project (Fearless leader: Carol Hogue)

Most Gracious (and what a talent show!)

Dowdell Middle School (Fearless leader: Joshua Newhouse)

Bravest Boldest Art

Mulrennan Middle School complete with floor-to-ceiling tornado! (Fearless leaders: Nancy Moran)

Most Quirky and Compelling Group of Kids

Burnett Middle School (Hello, Dallas!) (Fearless leaders: Nancy Phillips)

Most Brilliant Quick-Draw Questions

Marvelous Martinez Middle School (Fearless leader: Jeanette Whitman)

Best Novel Sketchers

Adams Middle School (Fearless leader: Abigail Dyer)

Spunkiest Funniest Questions

Eisenhower Middle School (Fearless leader: Erin Devlin)

Most Generous
It's a TIE: These two schools had HUGE book drives through www.booksindeed.org!
Swift Creek Middle
(Fearless leader: Ava Lee)
and
Holy Comforter Episcopal School
(Fearless leader: Laura Powell)
Both in Tallahassee, FL

Most Fabulous Listeners
St. Bernadette's, Drexel Hill, PA
(Fearless leader and someone to whom I dedicated The Slippery Map: Sister John Marie)

Best Combination of Manners and Sass!
(a boomerang school that keeps me coming back for more!)
Sanford School, Hockessin, DE
(Fearless leader: Ms. DeSantis)

Most Dedicated to their Writerly Dreams!
Stonehurst Hills, Upper Darby, PA
(Fearless leader: Ms. Mahoney)

Biggest Readers!
North Star Elementary, Hockessin, DE
(Fearless leader: Ms. Schweizer)

Most Dedicated Parents!
Pocopson Elementary, Pocopson, PA
(Fearless leader: Theresa Gambardella)

Best Wowzy Audience
(complete with yeehaws!)
Lakeland Highlands Middle School
(Fearless leader: Ms. Page
and her two fabu assistants!)

ALL of the Oscars
(Best Script, Best Actors, Directors, etc...)
Renaissance Academy
(Fearless leader: Dr. Caffrey)

Beachiest Peachiest
Oakgrove Middle School
(Fearless leader: Ms. Titus)

Most Brilliantly Creative
Liberty Middle School
(Fearless leader: Ms. Meginnis)

Most Brilliantly Illuminating Questions
Legacy Middle School
(Fearless leader: Ms. Thrailkill)