Janet Stevens, award winning author and illustrator of “Tops and Bottoms,” “My Big Dog” and “The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon,” will spend time sharing her love for writing with students at Ashley Elementary School Thursday, May 15.

Janet will spend time with different grade levels in the school auditorium. Assemblies will be held from 9:30 – 10:15 a.m.; 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. and 12:45 – 1:30 p.m.

“Tops and Bottoms” (Harcourt Brace, 1995), was named a Caldecott Honor Book and an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. It also received the National Parenting Publications Gold Award, a Parents’ Choice Honor Award and was named a Booklist Editors’ Choice. The book also received the 1996 Colorado Book Award presented by the Colorado Center for the Book for the best books written by a Colorado author.

Ashley Elementary School is located at 1914 Syracuse St. For more information please call LuAnn Tallman at 303-322-1853.