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From: fran manushkin <franm>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:24:47 -0400
Dear Friends, please forward this far and wide. Thanks! Fran April 29, 2009
| The Voyage of the Reader: Using Children?s Books to Create a Love of Reading With Mary Ann Hoberman, Francine Prose, Vera B. Williams and Meir Shalev; moderated by Benjamin D. Schrank
How do authors create and hold on to young readers in the electronic world? Three distinguished panelists?Vera B. Williams, an award- winning author and illustrator; Mary Ann Hoberman, the U.S. Children?s Poet Laureate; and Francine Prose, the award-winning author of picture books, children?s, young adult, and adult novels?offer their expertise.
When: Wednesday, April 29, 2009: 4:30?5:30 p.m. Where: Instituto Cervantes New York, 211?215 East 49th Street
Free and open to the public Cosponsored by Instituto Cervantes and the Consulate General of Spain
April 30, 2009 | Leaps and Bounds, Fits and Starts: The Evolution of a Children?s Book Writer With Neil Gaiman, Mariken Jongman, and Shaun Tan; moderated by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Picture books! Novels! Graphic Novels! And more! Authors and their works develop in distinctive ways. Some ideas and books are nurtured for years while others have a eureka moment. Join children?s book authors Neil Gaiman, Mariken Jongman, and Shaun Tan for a discussion about the ever-evolving landscape of children?s and young adult literature with Scholastic Vice President, Executive Editor Andrea Davis Pinkney.
When: Thursday, April 30, 2009: 6:30?8 p.m. Where: Scholastic Auditorium, 557 Broadway
Free and open to the public Presented by PEN?s Children?s Book Committee and Scholastic
May 3, 2009 | Evolution for Children: The Fight Goes On With Vicki Cobb, Tijs Goldschmidt, Deborah Heiligman, and Mary Ann Hoberman; moderated by Ellen Loughran
Teachers, librarians, scientists, and children?s book writers have fought in the courts and classrooms for the right to teach Darwin?s theory, and the authors on this panel have many ways of winning it. Vicki Cobb, author of 85 science books for children does it through school visits and her web site. Mary Ann Hoberman, the U.S. Children?s Poet Laureate, co-edited (with Linda Winston) a new anthology of poems about evolution. Tijs Goldschmidt, an evolutionary biologist and author, combines scientific and personal experience in his work. Deborah Heiligman, author of Charles and Emma: The Darwins? Leap of Faith, explores how Darwin and his wife reconciled her religious faith with his theory.
When: Sunday, May 3, 2009: 4:30?5:30 p.m. Where: powerHouse Books 37 Main St., Brookyn, N.Y. 11201
Received on Tue 31 Mar 2009 12:24:47 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:24:47 -0400
Dear Friends, please forward this far and wide. Thanks! Fran April 29, 2009
| The Voyage of the Reader: Using Children?s Books to Create a Love of Reading With Mary Ann Hoberman, Francine Prose, Vera B. Williams and Meir Shalev; moderated by Benjamin D. Schrank
How do authors create and hold on to young readers in the electronic world? Three distinguished panelists?Vera B. Williams, an award- winning author and illustrator; Mary Ann Hoberman, the U.S. Children?s Poet Laureate; and Francine Prose, the award-winning author of picture books, children?s, young adult, and adult novels?offer their expertise.
When: Wednesday, April 29, 2009: 4:30?5:30 p.m. Where: Instituto Cervantes New York, 211?215 East 49th Street
Free and open to the public Cosponsored by Instituto Cervantes and the Consulate General of Spain
April 30, 2009 | Leaps and Bounds, Fits and Starts: The Evolution of a Children?s Book Writer With Neil Gaiman, Mariken Jongman, and Shaun Tan; moderated by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Picture books! Novels! Graphic Novels! And more! Authors and their works develop in distinctive ways. Some ideas and books are nurtured for years while others have a eureka moment. Join children?s book authors Neil Gaiman, Mariken Jongman, and Shaun Tan for a discussion about the ever-evolving landscape of children?s and young adult literature with Scholastic Vice President, Executive Editor Andrea Davis Pinkney.
When: Thursday, April 30, 2009: 6:30?8 p.m. Where: Scholastic Auditorium, 557 Broadway
Free and open to the public Presented by PEN?s Children?s Book Committee and Scholastic
May 3, 2009 | Evolution for Children: The Fight Goes On With Vicki Cobb, Tijs Goldschmidt, Deborah Heiligman, and Mary Ann Hoberman; moderated by Ellen Loughran
Teachers, librarians, scientists, and children?s book writers have fought in the courts and classrooms for the right to teach Darwin?s theory, and the authors on this panel have many ways of winning it. Vicki Cobb, author of 85 science books for children does it through school visits and her web site. Mary Ann Hoberman, the U.S. Children?s Poet Laureate, co-edited (with Linda Winston) a new anthology of poems about evolution. Tijs Goldschmidt, an evolutionary biologist and author, combines scientific and personal experience in his work. Deborah Heiligman, author of Charles and Emma: The Darwins? Leap of Faith, explores how Darwin and his wife reconciled her religious faith with his theory.
When: Sunday, May 3, 2009: 4:30?5:30 p.m. Where: powerHouse Books 37 Main St., Brookyn, N.Y. 11201
Received on Tue 31 Mar 2009 12:24:47 PM CDT
