Author • Educator • Community Builder

Trisha Speed Shaskan is the author of 50 books for children, including the picture books The Itty-Bitty Witch illustrated by Xindi Yan, and Seriously, Cinderella is SO Annoying!: The Story of Cinderella as told by the Wicked Stepmother illustrated by Gerald Guerlais. 

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Trisha Speed Shaskan is an author full of fun and enthusiasm. The children feed off of her passion for books and reading. She gears her presentations to meet the appropriate age of the audience. Trisha will ask questions of the audience and get them to interact with her as she talks about her various books of both fiction and nonfiction. The students loved her.” 

–Beth Zimmerman
media specialist, Woodland Elementary School

The Itty-Bitty Witch

Betty can’t wait to be a first-grade witch. But on the first day of school, her classmates start calling her “Itty Bitty” because she’s small and still uses her kinder-broom. Betty doesn’t like the nickname–or how it makes her feel itty-bitty inside. So she comes up with a BIG idea to prove herself: winning the Halloween Dash. 

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Trisha Speed Shaskan is an author full of fun and enthusiasm. The children feed off of her passion for books and reading. She gears her presentations to meet the appropriate age of the audience. Trisha will ask questions of the audience and get them to interact with her as she talks about her various books of both fiction and nonfiction. The students loved her.”

Beth Zimmerman
media specialist, Woodland Elementary School