Robbi here. I'm currently working on updating our Busload of Books Tour website so it's a more robust place that will help us tell the story of the trip. For the record, Matthew and I are not literacy experts, we are not educators, we are not deeply informed on all...
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The Day She Decided to Become a Writer
Since launching the tour, we've been getting messages from friends sharing stories of the impact author visits had on their own development as readers or creators. I especially like this story from our friend Danielle: “When I was six years old, the author of a...
The Busload of Books Tour is a year-long project to promote literacy and raise awareness of the challenges facing our nation’s public schools.

Author/illustrator duo Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr (that’s us) and our four kids will spend the 2022-2023 school year traveling the country in a school bus/tiny home, visiting Title I schools in all 50 states (plus DC), and giving away 25,000 hardcover books to students and teachers from underserved communities.
