Invite author Melissa Taylor to your school! As a former award-winning elementary teacher, she loves inspiring and connecting with kids!

In-Person School Visits and Virtual Visits

Melissa offers both in-person and virtual visits, presenting to grades preschool through fifth grade.

Melissa Taylor, MA, is a parent, writer, author, children’s book reviewer, marketing consultant, former teacher, and former literacy trainer. Melissa created and wrote the highly popular and award-winning learning blog Imagination Soup for parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians to share the best children’s books and playful learning resources. Her first children’s picture book, Tova’s Sweet Solution, was published on April 21, 2026. Her second picture book, Grayson the Library Guardian, will be released in the spring of 2027.  She freelance writes about topics including education, parenting, friendship, and menopause for publications such as Adobe Education, Brightly, and Parenting. She’s an active volunteer at The Right Step, Inc., an adaptive riding barn that serves disabled children and adults. For more information about Melissa, please visit her websites, melissataylor.net or imaginationsoup.net.

Melissa Taylor’s Author School Visit Programs:

VIRTUAL OR IN-PERSON (COLORADO)

All school visits include an interactive read aloud of Tova’s Sweet Solution. After that, she can focus on any of the following:

Problem & Solution Storytelling

Tova’s story focuses on a problem, trial and error, and a solution. All stories have problems and solutions. Let’s use that structure to brainstorm and invent our own stories!

Write What You Know

Melissa will share how she wrote something from her own life and guide writers to do the same!

Kindness & Growth Mindset

Melissa will use her many drafts of Tova’s Sweet Solution to encourage students to understand trying, failing, and trying again…growth mindset, which Tova also exemplifies in the story.

Word Play

Melissa will use Tova’s Sweet Solution to share how writers invent new words, then guide students in a fun storytelling and word play activity.

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“Students were talking about Melissa and her book, Tova’s Sweet Solution, throughout the day. She was enthusiastic and interacted with the students throughout her presentation, keeping them engaged.”
– Judy Ripke, St. John’s Lutheran School Librarian

“Although virtual for a large group, she used creative strategies to keep the students engaged. I enjoyed the mix of reading her book with discussion and writing activities embedded.”
– Kristen Glover, Librarian, Big Hollow School District