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Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Winner Peter Sis is also the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Winner
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From: Karen Leggett <leggett_at_comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:05:48 -0400
*Tickets are limited. RSVP NOW. Don't miss this opportunity to hear Peter Sis, the winner of the Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award and the **2012 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award!*
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*CHILDREN'S BOOK GUILD NONFICTION EVENT*
*HONORING PETER SГЌS*
*SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.*
$35 per person
Pier 7 Restaurant at the Channel Inn,
650 Water Street, Washington, DC
Peter SГs was born in Czechoslovakia and began his career as a filmmaker. Sent to Los Angeles to produce a film for the 1984 Winter Olympics, he was then ordered to come home by the Czech government when the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries boycotted the Olympics. SГs chose to stay in the United States and was granted asylum. He began a correspondence with Maurice Sendak and ultimately began a new career illustrating and writing children’s books.
Winner of 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award, SГs has also won the /The New York Times Book Review/ Best Illustrated Book of the Year six times./Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei /was a 1997 Caldecott Honor Book. In 2003, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. His most recent book, /The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain/, won the 2008 Robert F. Sibert Medal and was also named a Caldecott Honor Book. VГЎclav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic, said of the work, “Peter SГs’s book is most of all about the will to live one’s life in freedom and should be required reading for all those who take their freedom for granted.”
Visit the Children’s Book Guild website http://www.childrensbookguild.org/to RSVP. Flyer is also attached. Tickets are limited to 100 people. RSVP today!
from Karen Leggett Children's Book Guild of Washington, D.C. leggett_at_comcast.net
Received on Tue 03 Apr 2012 08:05:48 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:05:48 -0400
*Tickets are limited. RSVP NOW. Don't miss this opportunity to hear Peter Sis, the winner of the Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award and the **2012 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award!*
**
*CHILDREN'S BOOK GUILD NONFICTION EVENT*
*HONORING PETER SГЌS*
*SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.*
$35 per person
Pier 7 Restaurant at the Channel Inn,
650 Water Street, Washington, DC
Peter SГs was born in Czechoslovakia and began his career as a filmmaker. Sent to Los Angeles to produce a film for the 1984 Winter Olympics, he was then ordered to come home by the Czech government when the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries boycotted the Olympics. SГs chose to stay in the United States and was granted asylum. He began a correspondence with Maurice Sendak and ultimately began a new career illustrating and writing children’s books.
Winner of 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award, SГs has also won the /The New York Times Book Review/ Best Illustrated Book of the Year six times./Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei /was a 1997 Caldecott Honor Book. In 2003, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. His most recent book, /The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain/, won the 2008 Robert F. Sibert Medal and was also named a Caldecott Honor Book. VГЎclav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic, said of the work, “Peter SГs’s book is most of all about the will to live one’s life in freedom and should be required reading for all those who take their freedom for granted.”
Visit the Children’s Book Guild website http://www.childrensbookguild.org/to RSVP. Flyer is also attached. Tickets are limited to 100 people. RSVP today!
from Karen Leggett Children's Book Guild of Washington, D.C. leggett_at_comcast.net
Received on Tue 03 Apr 2012 08:05:48 PM CDT
