In late January, Kathy Nisivocci of Barnegat visited the Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School and the Long Beach Island Grade School to share with the students her experience in writing and publishing her very first book, Daisy Doesn’t Dock Dive and Other Doggy Adventures. She has also read to children at other locations, including a branch of the Ocean County Library, and as she noted, “I thought becoming an author would be the accomplishment, but I’ve learned that the interaction with the kids is so much more rewarding!”

DOG TALES: (From right) Fifth-graders Austin Hoffman, Derek Vangi, Jake Giacobbe and Dean Phillips are all smiles meeting Kathy Nisivocci. (Supplied Photos)

Nisivocci loved to read and write stories when she was young, and she imagined she would become a published author one…