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Station Description: Fairfax County Public Library's podcasts sponsored by the Fairfax County Public Library Foundation Inc.

Show Title: BookCast Interview with Kalli Dakos

Show Length: 00:19:0

Show Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:28:52

Show Notes: Kalli Dakos, a former Fairfax County Public School teacher, is the author (with her daughter, Alicia DesMarteau) of Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig, about a pig named Hamlet who speaks in Shakespearean verse. Dakos has written more than 2,000 poems about life in elementary school classrooms. She now travels the country giving a workshop called "A Celebration of Life in the Classroom," which encourages literacy through poetry and play.

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