We are so excited to share with you the highlights of our award-winning author Tayyaba Syed visit on Wednesday, January 23rd. She performed a live puppet show of her multiple award-winning story The Blessed Bananas for our KG-3rd graders to inspire their creativity and spark their interest in books.  She also did an interactive writing workshop for 4th-5th grade where she shared her personal journey of becoming a published author and journalist as well as discussed the importance of bringing our voices at every age to the literary landscape. The workshop was very interactive. Students remained engaged and worked on writing prompts together and conducted visual and written exercises together Ms. Tayyaba has written for 20+ book titles and done 100+ literary presentations thus far.