

Hallee has also mentored student and adult writers, hosted community access days to the amazing Franklin Institute, and chaired family events like Swish for Schools and the Please Touch Museum’s Storybook Ball. She was determined to unleash the extraordinary talents of her elementary through university students. Mixing her desire to imagine with a quest to explore and share, Hallee became a teacher and earned a PhD.

She fell in love with The Dot, The Other Side, the Weird School Series, One for the Murphys, The Truth About Twinkie Pie, The Sky is Everywhere, Crank, Dictionary for a Better World, Little Libraries Big Heroes, and Eleanor & Park. Go!, Amelia Bedelia and Sticky Stanley.Īs Hallee grew, so did the size of her brain (arguable), her last name, and her diverse book collection. Hallee spent so much time imagining that she only read selective favorites like The Monster at the End of This Book, Caps for Sale, Go, Dog. She also traveled to space in her under-the-desk rocket, built snow castles for faraway kingdoms, sewed clothing for stuffed animals, and climbed trees taller than the sun (even after falling into a trash can). Previous Social-Emotional Learning Themes.In Philadelphia, Hallee Adelman was born with a teeny brain and a last name that began with a Z.ĭuring her early years, Hallee re-envisioned neighborhood games like wire ball and Dungeons & Dragons.

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