2011 Events:

Oct, 2011
Maryland Association of Library Specialists
Ocean City Maryland



Book Programs and Signings
for Bugs and Bugsicles

Are you ready to be an Arctic Woolly Bear Caterpillar?	Monarch Butterflies listen to their instructions	Dragonflies hide in the mud, under the blue stream.
A dragonfly emerges in the spring.	Arctic Wolly Bear Caterpillars wrap up for the winter.	Kids (of all ages) pretend to be bugs getting ready for winter. The top three pictures are from the Patuxent National Wildlife Center Presentation on March 13, 2010 The next two are from the Greenbelt Artful Afternoon on March 6, 2010.

Touch the Earth
On the Mall


As part of NASA's Earth Day celebration, the Touch the Earth Team showed off the book on the National Mall April 21, 2010.




Previous Events

Feb 1  At the Central Branch Library in Columbia Maryland
"Where Do Animals Go In The Winter?"
Have you ever wondered where beavers, bees, turtles, and ladybugs go in the winter? Join us for a story, craft, and a visit with the Patuxent Research Refuge staff and Amy A. Hansen, author of Bugs and Bugsicles. Ages 4 & up; 60 min. Starts at 7 pm.  Books available for purchase and signing.





Feb 13 At Old Parish House, College Park Arts Exchange, College Park, Maryland
Bugs and Bugsicles
Find out where bugs go in the winter.
Books available for purchase and signing.
From 3- 4 pm



Feb 23 At Artisan-Book Fair at Adas Israel's Gan HaYeled preschool, Washington DC
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For Adult Writers:

Maryland/Delaware/West Virginia
SCBWI Conference March 12 
Spring Into Action: A Day for Writers and Illustrators

Speaking on the Craft of Writing Nonfiction

Finding Drama in Real Life
Non-fiction writing has the potential to pull our emotions. We all want to know how to get through life. We want to know how other people and other species do it. and we want to answer mysteries. How was the world made? How do animals get through winter? We do not need to make up stuff for it to be exciting. It is exciting. But can you find the drama with all the research? That's the tricky part. Can you keep the story completely accurate and yet still have a story. When you succeed you'll have people cheering.

 The Bishop Claggett Center in Buckeystown, Maryland

For More Info MD/DE/VA SCBWI


February 21, 2010 2 pm
Aladdin's Lamp Book Store
in Arlington VA


March 7, 2010 1 pm
Greenbelt Community Center
Greenbelt MD
Part of the City's Artful Afternoon — focus on Children's Literature


March 13, 2010 10:30 am
Patuxent National Wildlife Visitor's Center
Laurel MD
Part of the Wildlife Refuge's Birthday Bash!


The National Wildlife Visitor Center is located off of Powder Mill Rd. between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Rt. 197 south of Laurel.




Scheduled Events and Appearances

Amy can be scheduled for school and community visits by working with Children's Literature Author and Illustrator Booking Service.
Or by e-mailing Amy at: amy.hansenNOSPAM@nasw.org. Please see a list of Amy's programs on the Children's Lit. page.


Science Safari

Experiments, reading and writing at the College Parks Arts Exchange
Dec. 13, 2009




Science Sleuths Talks

	To discuss some of my history of science  manuscripts, I put on a costume for the time period. This talk was about Dr. John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera in Victorian London.

Thank you notes from classes

2009 A class in Phoenix Arizona sent me a bunch of wonderful, fantastic, far out thank you notes after reading Wild Animals.	2007 I read Star Scouts! to a second grade class. This is a fictional book about kids adventures in space. It isn't published yet so the class drew the pictures and sent them.

Take Apart Party 2009
Greenbelt Elementary, Greenbelt MD
January 28, 2009







Take Apart Party 2006
Learn how stuff works, and how it looks on the inside. Pull up a screwdriver and dive into the appliances.
Amy Hansen will put down her tools every now and then to read from her new book How Things Work.
Greenbelt Community Center
October 1, 2006