As longtime educators and passionate advocates for authors and illustrators of children’s/young adult literature, Nancy and Scott have extensive experience in planning, organizing, and hosting author/illustrator visits in schools, libraries, and conferences. For every visit, Nancy and Scott draw from their broad network to ‘match’ an author/illustrator and their body of work with a school’s curriculum and its students’ areas of interest.
Nancy J. Johnson
Following a 45-year teaching career—ranging from elementary to high school—Nancy J. Johnson recently retired from Western Washington University as professor emerita where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in children’s and young adult literature and language arts teaching methods. In 2010, she moved to Singapore where she taught 8th grade English Language Arts for three years. Co-author of four professional books (including The Wonder of It All: When Literature and Literacy Connect), Nancy remains active professionally, presenting at conferences and serving on book award committees.
Scott Riley
Scott Riley has spent nearly 30 years teaching and designing curriculum in international schools in Indonesia, the Czech Republic, and Singapore. Currently Scott serves as Curriculum & Instruction Coordinator at Singapore American School, where he has helped host successful author/illustrator visits for years. Recently, Scott published his first nonfiction picture book, The Floating Field (Millbrook Press 2021), and his second book, Rats to the Rescue (Millbrook Press) came out in September 2024.
We believe in the transformative power of bringing authors/ illustrators, readers, and communities together to connect, inspire, enrich, extend. To make these experiences successful for all, we believe in fostering dynamic relationships—relationships to people, relationships to literature, relationships to place.