Carlienne Frisch - Author

Contact Information

Address:
100 Cedar St. #205
Mankato, MN 56001

Book Category: Nonfiction

Books

More than twenty non-fiction children's books for the educational market.

Highlights

Other publications:

Freelance stories printed with by-line in more than thirty magazines and newspapers.

A story in Chicken Soup for the Bride's Soul.

Ninety Vocational Biographies, Sauk Centre, MN, 1983-2005.

A Centennial Celebration, Minnesota Valley Regional Library, 1993.

Tell Me About Betsy, Mama, City of Mankato, 1988, a video script for a series of vignettes from Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy books set in Mankato.

Reflections in Time, Lake Crystal Area Chamber of Commerce, 1995. (Two pieces: a two-act stage script highlighting noteworthy events from 1870 through 1995, and a commemorative book on the history of Lake Crystal's churches and organizations.)

Awards

Presentations

Several topics for elementary and middle school classroom visits, with age-appropriate writing exercises. A DVD or video may be used as part of author's presentation.

1) The Making of a Writer: Are you a writer already? (Includes author's brief personal history, such as writing a much-cliched story in fifth grade.)
2) Tell a Frienship Story: When Betsy Met Tacy (uses a major theme of the Betsy-Tacy book series)
3) The Gift of History: Maud Hart Lovelace and Laura Ingalls Wilder (appropriate for Minnesota History unit).
4) Facts and Foibles: The adventurous, eccentric Mayo family (also for Minnesota History unit).
5) Time Travel: The delight and despair of doing research

Fees

$100 for one-hour presentation, $250 for half day, $400 for full day. Mileage compensation beyond a 50-mile distance from Mankato. Lunch with students, teachers, librarians, and anyone else who loves books is a desired bonus.

Added: 1/8/2001

Updated: 2009/03/17:1