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Interested in a visit for the 2025-2026 school year? Please fill out this form! (Visits detailed below).
If you have any questions, please e-mail supriyakelkarpreorders(at)gmail[dot]com
- For in-person and virtual visits, it is very helpful if students have read my books ahead of time. It’s a great way to get students excited about an author/illustrator visit.
- You’re more than welcome to take pictures of my visit and share on social media. Filming/recording is not allowed.
- You can help your students get the most out of a Q&A by collecting questions prior to the visit, so we can go through more questions during the visit.
- I ask that schools offer the book for purchase to students ahead of time so the books are available at the visit for signing. You can find a list of my books here that you can edit for your student book orders: 2025-2026 School Visits with Supriya Kelkar
- The rates below are for virtual visits or in-person visits at schools in Metro Detroit and Ann Arbor, up to 25 miles away from me. Schools farther away than 50 miles round trip will be asked to cover the additional travel expenses, and schools out of state will be asked to cover my travel and lodging expenses.
- Please note, I will not be able to sign any kind of overreaching morality clause in an event contract.
Tips for boosting your book sales:
1.) Advertise the visit early and often.
2.) Digital buy-links often get lost. If you can send a paper reminder home, it can help.
3.) If the visit is free, like the first visit below, inform your families that the author is waiving her honorarium to make this visit possible.
4.) Ask your PTA to order classroom copies for the appropriate grades and a couple library copies.
VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON SCHOOL VISITS
I have four options for your school, library, or book club visit:
1.) Free Visits with Supriya Kelkar
(Free virtual or in-person visits for schools that order the required number of copies of AND YET YOU SHINE: THE KOHINOOR DIAMOND, COLONIZATION, AND RESISTANCE, or ROOHI AND NATE ARE NOT ON THE SAME PAGE (both 3rd grade and up), or THANK YOU, TEACHER!, (all ages), and offer student book orders for either visit.) For Young 5s/Kindergarteners the THANK YOU, TEACHER visit is 10 minutes long. If you would like these visits without the book orders, they are $700/presentation. The free visit is for schools in the U.S. only.
2.) 20-Minute Reading and Draw-Along
Choose up to two books to be read aloud, followed by a draw-along. This visit will conclude with a Q&A if time permits. ($500, Young 5s to 1st grade).
3.) 30-minute Author Visit Q & A:
Students can ask questions about any of my books, or about writing and publishing in this 30 minute Q&A session. This visit can include a picture book reading or a novel excerpt if you would like to start the visit with that ($550, 2nd grade to 8th grade).
4.) 30-minute Author’s and Illustrator’s Journey Visit, Draw-Along, and Q&A:
I will give a brief presentation on how I became an author and illustrator, followed by a draw-along, and ending with a Q&A. ($800, 2nd – 5th grade).
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