FLIP/Author Studies
Meet Angelo DeCesare, author and one of our most popular residency artists. At the heart of his success is Flip along with Flip's family and related community members, who populate the various books in the Flip series.
The Flip series is curriculum based, and extensively tested in classrooms in New York City. The series grew out of Angelo's experiences as a visiting author for Puppetry in Practice in 1994. His first book Flip's Fantastic Journal was so successful it led to the development of the entire series. Flip, his family, and friends are recognizable to thousands of children across the country.
Flip is respected by educators and reading specialists. Flip's Fantastic Journal was well reviewed by School Library Journal, and was cited by Reading Today as having "all the ingredients budding diarists need to be successful in their own endeavors: honesty, creativity, and the option of illustration when words fail."
