Deputy Dorkface author Janison coming to Avalon

Author Kevin Janison, creator of the Deputy Dorkface series, will visit the school library on Monday, Dec. 3.

Janison will perform three presentations for grades K-5. Janison, an award-winning meteorologist and TV weathercaster in Las Vegas, has published three children’s books about character education featuring Deputy Dorkface—a well-meaning but imperfect champion of justice and good character.

Author Kevin Janison, creator of the Deputy Dorkface series, will visit the school library on Monday, Dec. 3.

Janison will perform three presentations for grades K-5. Janison, an award-winning meteorologist and TV weathercaster in Las Vegas, has published three children’s books about character education featuring Deputy Dorkface—a well-meaning but imperfect champion of justice and good character.

In his first adventure, “Deputy Dorkface”: How Stinkville Got Cleaned Up,” published in 2007, the lawman became convinced the local water supply was contaminated and banned its use. Eventually, the children of Stinkville took matters into their own hands to promote personal hygiene.

Deputy Dorkface struck again in 2008 as the top law enforcement officer in Sugaropolis, where he outlawed dessert in response to the childrens’ unhealthy diets. Of course, the children revolted.

In Dorkface’s latest adventure, 2011’s “How Mannerland Got Its Manners Back,” it is the adults who turn to him in desperation to teach their suddenly thoughtless children basic manners.

Janison visits more than 110 schools a year, where enthusiastic (screaming) children listen to both the Dorkface stories and Janison’s description of how a book comes to be created, illustrated, edited and published.

Janison, a native Californian, attended Fairfax High School and California State University Northridge, according to the website deputydorkfacebooks.com.

“He has held the National Weather Association Seal of Approval since 1985. The Janison family moved to Las Vegas in 1994 and joined the News 3 team in 2007. Prior to southern Nevada, he worked in Reno, Madison, Wisconsin; Evansville, Indiana; Jackson, Missippi, and New York City,” the website said.

“Kevin has been responsible for building the Neighborhood Weather Network, which placed weather stations and provided curriculum in meteorology in over 100 schools throughout the region,” the web sites said.

His weather broadcasts have earned various honors, including three Emmys.