What makes these Assembly Style author visits different
Lisa Caprelli’s Unicorn Jazz™ presentations are built to be both inspiring and instruction-friendly:
Interactive storytelling students can retell, discuss, and write about
SEL in action through characters, choices, teamwork, and reflection
Music, movement, and art that make comprehension stick
Cultural curiosity that invites respectful noticing and connection
ELD and multilingual learner supports with visuals, repetition, and sentence frames
Teacher-friendly follow-ups that feel doable, not like extra work
Literacy skills supported during the author visits
Students grow in skills commonly taught in elementary and middle grades, including:
Retell, summarize, and sequence
Character traits and motivation
Point of view and theme
Speaking and listening through structured participation
Writing options: opinion, informative, and narrative responses
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SEL skills students practice
Enjoy a customized in person school author visit.
SEL – Social Emotional Learning approved for activities for schools beyond all our Unicorn Jazz books.
- Empathy and perspective-taking
- Teamwork and encouragement
Growth mindset and courageous #BeBoldBeBrave - Belonging and inclusive community building
Encourage fun learning through free book activities, curriculum, PBIS, STEAM, reading, writing, art, and our song albums, while developing powerful social-emotional learning skills! If you are a school librarian, PTO, PTA, teacher, parent or educator, Lisa Caprelli is ready to connect with YOU and bring Unicorn Jazz to life. Children’s author visits are a fabulous way to connect authors to students! Librarians and Teachers, get the social emotional learning curriculum, KINDNESS book activity pages – over 115 learning digital downloads for all books. Click here for TPT Note: We give Free packets for teachers upon booking.
Free extras included with Author Visits
Your visit can include fun, flexible add-ons that build schoolwide excitement and belonging:
Art projects and printables
“Banners of Belonging” activities
Contests and challenges
A school play option and performance extensions
Additional classroom-friendly ideas connected to Unicorn Jazz™
(These extras are designed to be low-prep and adaptable by grade.)
TESTIMONIALS AND RAVING REVIEWS!
About Children's Book Author Lisa Caprelli
Lisa Caprelli, Children's Author & Kids Show Host
Lisa Caprelli is an author with a degree in Social Psychology. She has studied human behavior and communication for over 25 years. She is host of Unicorn Jazz "The THING I Do" kids show. Originally from El Paso, Texas, Caprelli currently resides in Orange County, California. She has published over 21 books and has 6 books forthcoming by 2025 in English and Spanish perfect for the Bilingual students also. Her fiction and non-fiction books are for children of all ages, including the child in all of us! Caprelli has original activity and curriculum guides for teachers and parents seeking to integrate the lessons from her stories for students, librarians, educators, counselors, principals and parents.
School Author Visit Review, Created Assembly Style for the Entire School — Grades TK-6:
Ms. Caprelli showed up for an author visit at our school first thing all smiles and hugs with a life size Unicorn Jazz in tow. She set up in our library with Jazz and tons of activities and extras for teachers. All of our kindergarteners squealed with delight and were truly in awe. Lisa shared her story about how she and her team came to create the Unicorn Jazz book. She read them Bee-ing Happy Book and truly engaged every student about what the characters and scenes in each page meant to her.
We had a writers workshop with 5th graders next. She shared her book and explained how to use the writing template she provided. They were all so inspired and excited to collaborate and then share in small groups, their own stories in a speed writing session. We moved on to an assembly with our 2nd thru 4th graders, approximately 230 students.
She shared with them the Unicorn Jazz friendship song. Everyone danced, clapped, high-fived and sang along. We were then treated to a sneak peek of her newest book Eye See You. Everyone was overjoyed and can’t wait for its release! After that we moved on to a group of our 1st graders who were again in awe of Ms. Caprelli and giant Jazz. We ate lunch in the library with several of my library helpers. She got to know them a bit, even took the time to listen to a short story one of them created about Jazz. She had another wonderful reading & singing session with more kinder and TK students. We had one more exciting writers workshop with more 5th graders. Then sadly we had to say goodbye. All along the way she was posing for pictures for and with us: Signing books, cards and notebooks for anyone who asked. She smiled all through the ambitious day I scheduled for us.
She is such a humble and kind soul. We were all Unicorn Jazz fans before she came, but she made this a day that anyone who met her will not soon forget! We feel truly honored to have had her at McKinley Elementary and can’t wait for her to return. ~Librarian, Ashley Fisher, Tracy Unified School District
About the Unicorn Jazz Book Series
Now booking author visits in:
California — Orange County (Mission Viejo, Irvine), Los Angeles County, San Diego County, Coachella Valley (Palm Desert, Palm Springs)
Texas — El Paso, Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston
National & Virtual — Nationwide U.S., Canada (virtual); international virtual programs
Don’t see your city? We travel—ask about scheduling and neighbor-district bundles.
School free author visits, Read Across America, Kindness book reading storytime programs by Author Lisa Caprelli for any USA city including Orange County, California author visits, Los Angeles California author visits, San Diego, California author visits, El Paso, Texas author visits, Modesto, California author visits, Bakersfield author visits, Ceres California, Mission Viejo, Appleton, Wisconsin, Ruidoso, New Mexico, Houston speaker, Texas Alabama author visits, Arkansas author visits, Tennessee author visits, New Jersey author visits, Escondido author visits, Las Vegas author visits, Frisco author visits, Houston author visits, Tyler author visits, Dallas author visits, Sacramento author visits, Memphis author visits, Tennessee, New York, Austin, Texas author visits.