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From: Schmidt, Tessa M. DPI <Tessa.Schmidt_at_dpi.wi.gov>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:52:11 -0500
Are you back-to-school shopping for professional development opportunities? Here are three chances to celebrate the Caldecott Award's 75th anniversar y this September.
The Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration webinar will focus on the 10 principles for illustrating a grea t picture book. Following each principle there will be illustrations of im ages from children's books to illuminate the principle. The artists featur ed include David Wiesner - winner of 3 gold Caldecott medals to Betsy Lewin the illustrator of the wildly successful "Click Clack Moo" series to a mor e recent Caldecott winner Brian Selznick creator of Hugo Cabret now an Osca r winning motion picture.
The ALSC Institute will be the kick-off to the Caldecott Award's 75th anniversary celebration and will feature a ve ry special Breakfast for Bill panel discussion to commemorate the occasion. This panel will feature past Caldecott Award winners and honorees Denise Fleming, Kevin Henkes and Eric Rohmann, as well as the director of the Mazz a Museum: International Art from Picture Books, Ben Sapp. This star-studde d event is sure to dazzle and inspire with additional award-winning authors and illustrators scheduled to speak at the Institute including: Peter Brow n, Gary Paulsen, April Pulley Sayre, Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier.
The ALSC Facebook page will host monthly Q&A Facebook forums with Caldecott award winn ing authors and illustrators beginning in September. All you need to do is log on and join the conversation. Stay tuned for details.
For information about these events or to find more ways to celebrate the Ca ldecott 75th Anniversary, check out http://www.ala.org/alsc/Caldecott75
Tessa Michaelson Schmidt Youth and Special Services Consultant Wisconsin DPI, Public Library Development 125 South Webster Street, PO Box 7841 Madison, WI 53707-7841 P: (608) 267-5077 F: (608) 267-9207
Find http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/ys-sn.html Like http://www.facebook.com/WisDPIpubLibDev Follow https://twitter.com/#!/WisDPIpubLibDev
Received on Wed 01 Aug 2012 08:52:11 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:52:11 -0500
Are you back-to-school shopping for professional development opportunities? Here are three chances to celebrate the Caldecott Award's 75th anniversar y this September.
The Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration webinar will focus on the 10 principles for illustrating a grea t picture book. Following each principle there will be illustrations of im ages from children's books to illuminate the principle. The artists featur ed include David Wiesner - winner of 3 gold Caldecott medals to Betsy Lewin the illustrator of the wildly successful "Click Clack Moo" series to a mor e recent Caldecott winner Brian Selznick creator of Hugo Cabret now an Osca r winning motion picture.
The ALSC Institute will be the kick-off to the Caldecott Award's 75th anniversary celebration and will feature a ve ry special Breakfast for Bill panel discussion to commemorate the occasion. This panel will feature past Caldecott Award winners and honorees Denise Fleming, Kevin Henkes and Eric Rohmann, as well as the director of the Mazz a Museum: International Art from Picture Books, Ben Sapp. This star-studde d event is sure to dazzle and inspire with additional award-winning authors and illustrators scheduled to speak at the Institute including: Peter Brow n, Gary Paulsen, April Pulley Sayre, Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier.
The ALSC Facebook page will host monthly Q&A Facebook forums with Caldecott award winn ing authors and illustrators beginning in September. All you need to do is log on and join the conversation. Stay tuned for details.
For information about these events or to find more ways to celebrate the Ca ldecott 75th Anniversary, check out http://www.ala.org/alsc/Caldecott75
Tessa Michaelson Schmidt Youth and Special Services Consultant Wisconsin DPI, Public Library Development 125 South Webster Street, PO Box 7841 Madison, WI 53707-7841 P: (608) 267-5077 F: (608) 267-9207
Find http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/ys-sn.html Like http://www.facebook.com/WisDPIpubLibDev Follow https://twitter.com/#!/WisDPIpubLibDev
Received on Wed 01 Aug 2012 08:52:11 AM CDT
