Scott Stoll hands out pages with excerpts from his book, “Ruby the Red Worm’s Dirty Job,” to students at the Waukesha STEM Academy’s Randall Campus this week. Students are drawing illustrations for the book. Photo by Wentz-Graff, Milwaukee Journal
Scott Stoll hands out pages with excerpts from his book, “Ruby the Red Worm’s Dirty Job,” to students at the Waukesha STEM Academy’s Randall Campus this week. Students are drawing illustrations for the book. Photo by Wentz-Graff, Milwaukee Journal

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article

World traveler came home to fulfillment

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Update: The stories have both been archived. Read “World traveler came home to fulfillment.” The original full-page, color story about my trip around the world in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is no longer accessible :(

This is a great newspaper article about my trip around the world, coming home, and how this all evolved into working with local schools to illustrate children’s books as an author-in-residence with my Make-A-Book Project.

This story is about the creation of Ruby the Red Worm.

See the book here or check out all the project updates on Dreamaplay, my kids’ website.

Thanks to Laurel Walker for doing such a thorough job and helping build our local community by spreading change. I also had a big, big surprise to see that I made the cover of the online edition. I had many teachers tell me that it was a win for the education system during these troubled times of protests in the State Capitol. Also, see the fun photo gallery by Kristyna Wentz-Graff.

A aerial view of my message. It could read "We ♥ worms" or "We heart worms" or "We love worms."
Here is the final retouched picture for Ruby the Red Worm’s Dirty Job. My camera wasn’t big enough, so I need to splice to pictures together. I think it adds to the effect. Thanks to the Waukesha STEM Academy.
Picture of Scott Stoll

Scott Stoll

My claim to fame is that I rode a bicycle around the world and wrote some books. More about me.

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