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Reminder: Naomi Shihab Nye Delivers Zolotow Lecture Next
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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 09:00:29 -0500
Naomi Shihab Nye will deliver the Sixth Annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Wednesday, October 8, 7:30 p.m., at the Wisconsin Union Theater on the UW-Madison Campus. A renowned poet and writer for adults, Ms. Nye is also the creator of singular books for children and young adults. Among them are the poetry anthologies she has compiled to bring international voices to young readers in the United States, including This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World (Four Winds Press, 1992), The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems and Stories from Mexico (Simon & Schuster, 1995), and The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East (Simon & Schuster, 1998). Her other poetry anthologies for youth include What Have You Lost? (Greenwillow, 1999) and I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Collection of Her Poems and His Poems Gathered in Pairs (compiled with Paul Janeczko; Simon & Schuster, 1996).
Ms. Nye's original writing published for children and teenagers includes the picture books Benito's Dream Bottle (Simon & Schuster, 1995) and Sitti's Secrets
(Four Winds Press, 1994), the novel Habibi (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and two poetry collections, Come With Me: Poems for a Journey (Greenwillow, 2000) and 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (Greenwillow, 2002). This will be a free public lecture open to all.
For more information, go to www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/zolotow/czfaq.htm
The Charlotte Zolotow Lecture is an annual event sponsored by the CCBC in honor of Charlotte Zolotow, a distinguished editor at HarperCollins Children's Books (now retired) who has also authored over 70 picture books for young children. The CCBC also sponsors the annual Charlotte Zolotow Award.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, Wi 53706 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 01 Oct 2003 09:00:29 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 09:00:29 -0500
Naomi Shihab Nye will deliver the Sixth Annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Wednesday, October 8, 7:30 p.m., at the Wisconsin Union Theater on the UW-Madison Campus. A renowned poet and writer for adults, Ms. Nye is also the creator of singular books for children and young adults. Among them are the poetry anthologies she has compiled to bring international voices to young readers in the United States, including This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World (Four Winds Press, 1992), The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems and Stories from Mexico (Simon & Schuster, 1995), and The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East (Simon & Schuster, 1998). Her other poetry anthologies for youth include What Have You Lost? (Greenwillow, 1999) and I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Collection of Her Poems and His Poems Gathered in Pairs (compiled with Paul Janeczko; Simon & Schuster, 1996).
Ms. Nye's original writing published for children and teenagers includes the picture books Benito's Dream Bottle (Simon & Schuster, 1995) and Sitti's Secrets
(Four Winds Press, 1994), the novel Habibi (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and two poetry collections, Come With Me: Poems for a Journey (Greenwillow, 2000) and 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (Greenwillow, 2002). This will be a free public lecture open to all.
For more information, go to www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/zolotow/czfaq.htm
The Charlotte Zolotow Lecture is an annual event sponsored by the CCBC in honor of Charlotte Zolotow, a distinguished editor at HarperCollins Children's Books (now retired) who has also authored over 70 picture books for young children. The CCBC also sponsors the annual Charlotte Zolotow Award.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, Wi 53706 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 01 Oct 2003 09:00:29 AM CDT
