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From: angelica
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 10:28:12 -0700
August 8, 2001
California State University, Fresno Henry Madden Library 5200 N. Barton Ave. M/S ML34 Fresno CA 93740?14
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Angelica Carpenter, Curator
Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children?s Literature
Phone: (559) 278?16
ANCA HOSTS EVELYN COLEMAN
Author Evelyn Coleman will be the featured speaker at the first meeting of ANCA, the Arne Nixon Center Advocates, a support group of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children?s Literature at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. Ms. Coleman?s appear-ance is co-hosted by the African American Historical & Cultural Museum of the San Joaquin Valley and sponsored by the Fresno Area Reading Council and Rosellen Kershaw.
The public is invited to attend Ms. Coleman?s talk on Saturday, September 29, in Room 200 of the University Center, on the Fresno State campus. Doors open at 9:00 a.m. with the meeting scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Coffee and juice will be served. The program, which will allow time for questions and answers, will last about an hour. All ages are welcome. Admission is free for ANCA members, $2 for non-members, and $1 for students. Reservations are required: call (559) 278?16 or E-mail to jcrow at csufresno.edu. Free parking is available in Lot D. (Enter from Shaw on Barton Avenue, turn right on Keats: Lot D is the second lot on your left.)
Ms. Coleman?s award-winning picture books include To Be a Drum, The Foot Warmer and the Crow, The Glass Bottle Tree, The Riches of Osceola McCarty, and White Socks Only. The last title is based on her own childhood experience, when she was too young to realize that some people hated her for the color of her skin. Many of her stories include supernatural elements. Born in Sin, her first young adult novel, stirred critical controversy with its theme of different kinds of prejudice and its hip-talking, ?bilingual? heroine. Ms. Coleman has written two books for the American Girl History Series: Mystery of the Dark Tower and most recently, Circle of Fire, based on a actual 1958 Ku Klux Klan plan to bomb a school where Eleanor Roosevelt was scheduled to speak on race relations.
Ms. Coleman will sign books from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, September 28, at Petunia?s Place Bookstore, 2017 W. Bullard, Fresno, California, 93711. The store phone number is (559) 43861.
Her books will also be available for sale and autographing following her lecture on September 29, and the Arne Nixon Center will be open for tours following the program.
The Arne Nixon Center is located in the Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno, 5200 North Barton Avenue, Fresno, California, 93740?14. For more information, call the Center at (559) 278?16.
Received on Tue 04 Sep 2001 12:28:12 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 10:28:12 -0700
August 8, 2001
California State University, Fresno Henry Madden Library 5200 N. Barton Ave. M/S ML34 Fresno CA 93740?14
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Angelica Carpenter, Curator
Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children?s Literature
Phone: (559) 278?16
ANCA HOSTS EVELYN COLEMAN
Author Evelyn Coleman will be the featured speaker at the first meeting of ANCA, the Arne Nixon Center Advocates, a support group of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children?s Literature at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. Ms. Coleman?s appear-ance is co-hosted by the African American Historical & Cultural Museum of the San Joaquin Valley and sponsored by the Fresno Area Reading Council and Rosellen Kershaw.
The public is invited to attend Ms. Coleman?s talk on Saturday, September 29, in Room 200 of the University Center, on the Fresno State campus. Doors open at 9:00 a.m. with the meeting scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Coffee and juice will be served. The program, which will allow time for questions and answers, will last about an hour. All ages are welcome. Admission is free for ANCA members, $2 for non-members, and $1 for students. Reservations are required: call (559) 278?16 or E-mail to jcrow at csufresno.edu. Free parking is available in Lot D. (Enter from Shaw on Barton Avenue, turn right on Keats: Lot D is the second lot on your left.)
Ms. Coleman?s award-winning picture books include To Be a Drum, The Foot Warmer and the Crow, The Glass Bottle Tree, The Riches of Osceola McCarty, and White Socks Only. The last title is based on her own childhood experience, when she was too young to realize that some people hated her for the color of her skin. Many of her stories include supernatural elements. Born in Sin, her first young adult novel, stirred critical controversy with its theme of different kinds of prejudice and its hip-talking, ?bilingual? heroine. Ms. Coleman has written two books for the American Girl History Series: Mystery of the Dark Tower and most recently, Circle of Fire, based on a actual 1958 Ku Klux Klan plan to bomb a school where Eleanor Roosevelt was scheduled to speak on race relations.
Ms. Coleman will sign books from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, September 28, at Petunia?s Place Bookstore, 2017 W. Bullard, Fresno, California, 93711. The store phone number is (559) 43861.
Her books will also be available for sale and autographing following her lecture on September 29, and the Arne Nixon Center will be open for tours following the program.
The Arne Nixon Center is located in the Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno, 5200 North Barton Avenue, Fresno, California, 93740?14. For more information, call the Center at (559) 278?16.
Received on Tue 04 Sep 2001 12:28:12 PM CDT
