Sam Swope

Describes the havoc created when "The Krazees" take over Iggie's house and head on a boring rainy day.

A teacher discovers how reading, writing, and imagining can help children grow, change, and even sometimes survive A few years back, children's-book writer Sam Swope gave a workshop to a third-grade class in Queens. So enchanted was he with his twenty-eight students that he "adopted" the class for three years, teaching them to write stories and poems. Almost all were new Americans (his class included students fom twenty-one countries) and Swope was...