Well, I guess it’s time for me to introduce myself. I am Jamie and I’m one of the newest summer interns here at 826LA West. I was born and raised here in West Los Angeles and I am really looking forward to helping out children in the community. If you need a Cliff’s Notes version of who I am, I can be condensed own into two (glorious) sentences:

“Jamie is a sparkling conversationalist who has read entirely too many books about Abraham Lincoln and dreams of one day filling her house with portraits purchased at flea markets of people she does not in any way know. This will not stop her from making up elaborate stories about the previously mentioned people to tell everyone when they ask about her strange choice of art.”

But enough about me. Let’s get down to the interesting stuff. Let’s talk about this past week's field trips at 826LA West.

This past week we have been having some really enthusiastic and talented classes come through the Barnacle & Barnacle publishing house. We have published books about dinosaurs wreaking havoc in San Francisco, a scientist and her pet tiger whose jet packs break down in the middle of forest, an intergalactic soccer team, and a color changing lizard and his ant best friend.

Each group coming through Barnacle & Barnacle had immensely unique ideas (as illustrated in the breadth of subject matter we have published this week) and eager attitudes to learn about story writing. At the end of the day, the children had a good time bailing out their story leader and get a cool book of their own creation out of it.