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Former Faculty Member, Now Local Author, Inspires
Former Upper School Math Teacher and award-winning children’s author Susan Stevens Crummel (1983-2003) returned to campus to read with Lower School students. Crummel, who collaborates with her sister, Janet Stevens, on several books, shared information about the writing process, including how she and Stevens had certain books where they had multiple rewrites. She encouraged students to follow their dreams and to never give up, telling them to keep reading and writing, and that mistakes are okay. She read portions of her books and then encouraged the students to finish them on their own. Crummel and Stevens are the authors Cook-a-DoodleDo!, which won the Texas Bluebonnet in 2001, and And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, a Texas Bluebonnet nominee in 2003.
