Author of the “Santa Claus: Super Spy” series Ryan Jacobson visited students Friday at the Lakeview Elementary School to share his books, his writing process and the joy of reading.

Through his tailored presentations — which changed depending on the age level — he seemed to effectively get kids excited about reading and writing.

The “Santa Claus: Super Spy” series has the hero — Santa — pursuing adventures in different states throughout the country. Each book has facts about the state and a life lesson for kids to learn.

The illustrated chapter books begin with a Super Spy Secret Code for readers to solve. The second and third books — Jacobson has written three in the series so far — have Super Spy State Challenges with questions on the state where the adventures took place and on what page in the book to find the answers.

Jacobson’s presentation at Lakeview had kids laughing, participating and asking questions about writing and book publishing.

From his second book, “The Case of the Delaware Dinosaur,” Jacobson read what he called the scariest chapter but was animated and varied his voice to entertain the students.

Jacobson’s other books in the series are “The Case of the Florida Freeze” and “The Case of the Colorado Cowboy.” He said the entire series will be available at Doyle’s Hallmark in the Northbridge Mall.

“I think people should read them,” said first-grader Lizzy Kunkel.

“I think he’s a good author,” said classmate Max Pleimling. “I think his books are good.”

Kids gave him ideas on future books and were excited to write their own stories. Most ideas from the first-graders involved Santa getting eaten by fruits or vegetables, so Jacobson encouraged the students to pursue those stories on their own.

With the younger grades, Jacobson read a few chapters and talked about the writing and brainstorming process.

“It’s cool how he gets his ideas,” Kunkel said.

When presenting to the older students, Jacobson brainstormed for future book ideas with the fourth- and fifth-graders and worked on the writing process with the sixth-graders. At 2 p.m. the older students had an author tea, where they presented their research projects on various authors — one of which was about Jacobson.

His advice for students wanting to become good writers is to read lots of books and write every day.

“If you do those things every day you’ll be a better writer for it,” he said.

Kathy Niebuhr, Lakeview’s librarian, said she wanted to bring Jacobson to the school — which was free of charge — to kick off summer reading and get kids excited about literature.

“We hope this will encourage students to read through the summer,” she said.

Plus, Niebuhr said, students often think authors are abstract creatures that are unreachable, and Jacobson showed students he’s just a regular guy.

“It’s such a great encouragement for our students to see authors from their state and see what they write,” said Lakeview Principal Jean Jordan.

Jacobson is from Mora, where he lives with his kindergarten teacher wife, Lora, and their adopted son, Jonah. He started writing children’s books, he said, after reading books from “The Magic Treehouse” series that his wife brought home.

He is currently working on three books in various stages of production: a picture book for kindergartners and first-graders, a choose-your-own-adventure-type book for fourth- and fifth-graders and a Dracula book for sixth- and seventh-graders.

“I think he could probably write a whole bunch of stories, and they’d probably be pretty good,” said Kunkel.

Jacobson has also published three historical comic books about Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Star-Spangled Banner” and William Penn. He said he started writing when he was 15 but wasn’t published until he was 30.