Book An Author Visit and Bring an Author into Your Class with Award-Winning Author, Songwriter, and TV Producer. Ask about Free Author visits by buying books for students!
As featured in the news, Author Visits by children’s Book Author, Lisa Caprelli ~ Grades PreK, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and even age appropriate keynote programs for grades 7-8th. Lisa is author of 22 English & Spanish books, plus music, STEM, SEL and the arts! Learn more – use the easy author visit booking above for a free 2025-26 school packet and to book a short intro call for YOUR Author Visit Honorarium packet for Lisa Caprelli. This is for school author visits assembly style for PreK to 6th graders, and she also is a known keynote speaker for middle school and high schoolers. Learn about programs to fund my author visit and bring books into your school’s library and classrooms.
Having reached over 800,000 students, and appearing on numerous news media appearances, Lisa has a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Psychology, Lisa Caprelli’s impact provides an edutainment experience. Live in-person and virtual author visit for elementary school author visits. Known for teacher-approved Bilingual Books. Lisa is on a city-by-city elementary school tour with InspirEd Author programs for school author visits program!
Assembly Style Entertaining Education Q&A Sessions
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Includes story time read aloud, song, behind the scenes lessons on the importance of writing, creating, literacy, puppetry and music and a free puppet video from The Thing I Do show – with Q&A at the end of the session. Free to schedule a call today for an Author Visit, Lisa’s team will coordinate an agenda beforehand to assist everyone live in person school author visit. Lisa includes a free kindness certificates and more.
For upper grades 4-6, the school assemblies are NOT the same as lower grades PreK to 3. Each session has multi-media presentations with music, videos and behind-the scenes with STEM learning beyond literacy. Lisa shares with upper grades things like WHERE DO GOOD IDEAS COME FROM, using examples from famous author Steven Johnson and get them into critical creative thinking of “behind the scenes” of different creative careers (video, editing, writing of course, the arts, music, careers, being an entrepreneur and the teamwork it takes to create something bigger than you ever thought possible.
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Enjoy a customized in person school author visit.
SEL – Social Emotional Learning approved for activities for schools beyond all our Unicorn Jazz books.
PBIS – School-wide PBIS and our InspirEd program help make schools more effective places. Join Author Lisa Caprelli, as she brings the free magical world of ‘Unicorn Jazz’ to life, blending storytelling and music to foster curiosity, joy, and uniqueness in young minds. Dedicated to reaching children from all backgrounds, Lisa’s engaging work inspires children to lead meaningful and purposeful lives.
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! A school author visit provides significant benefits for both students and librarians, fostering a love of reading, writing, and creativity. Librarians/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.
Author Lisa Caprelli has beyond the Author Visit packages for students and teachers – How To Self-Publish a Book programs where she comes in person several times a year to teach 2 or more classrooms the writing to publishing process. AUTHORSHIP PROGRAM CLICK HERE
Author Visit for Teachers and Classrooms - Free Beyond the Book Bonuses
- How To Write Your Own Book Authorship Programs - After every author visit, we offer this program
- Curriculum - Gain access to free resources and curriculum for teachers with our virtual author visit. Free Resources are emailed prior to the virtual author visit for year-round learning opportunities.
- Social Emotional Learning - Free Educator's teacher packet for all Unicorn Jazz books.
- Puppets - Unicorn Jazz and Trezekke zebracorn puppets for your school library or classroom!
- Free Printables - Curriculum / Coloring Pages / 3D printed files, Classroom Activities for year round learning.
- 3D Printed Files - Some schools have a 3d Printer. Ask us for our free file of Unicorn Jazz.
- Licensing - Benefit from the use of Unicorn Jazz character images for your outreach.
- Autographed Books - We will give your school one autographed copy from each author/illustrator prior to your scheduled session.
- Coloring Page Contest - Students can choose from 5 designs (Winner chosen by your school).
- Custom Video Announcement - Video announcement customized to each school.
- School Discounts, Non-Profits - On author’s orders of books and supplemental material. SEL is imperative for students!
- Free Bedtime Read Alouds for Kids

Children’s author Lisa Caprelli revealed her inspirational path from a shy young girl to a successful writer who now travels city by city, visiting elementary schools to promote a message of self-love and acceptance in a recent ABC 7 AUTHOR VISITS interview in El Paso, Texas. Caprelli discussed how her passion of writing turned into a transforming tool in her life, enabling her to get over her personal fears and shyness as part of a week-long series.
Currently based out of Southern California, traveling the world, Lisa is born and raised in El Paso, Caprelli has published over 22 books, most notably the hit Unicorn Jazz series. Along with her varied group of animal pals, her tales center on a special unicorn with a musical note for a tail who negotiates the difficulties of embracing her differences. Reflecting Caprelli’s own life events of having people believe in her, beginning with her grandmother, Wolf the Crow is a constant friend in her stories who believes in Unicorn Jazz.
Caprelli interacts with pupils in a manner that really speaks to them during her school visits. Librarians and teachers have seen how young readers connect with her characters and themes. Youngsters who identify as Wolf the Crow or Unicorn Jazz often come forward to share their own challenges with shyness or feeling odd. Like she did, Caprelli exhorts young children to embrace their love of writing as a means of expression and confidence building tool.
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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