What's New in Children's Books
When
Nov 7, 2009 8:30 am - 12:00 pm (Saturday)
What
Location: Vanderslice Hall Contact: Margaret Cohen Description: This annual half-day autumn workshop highlights the seasons best new literary releases. Renowned authors and illustra...
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Event details: What's New in Children's Books
Description
Location:
Vanderslice Hall
Contact:
Margaret Cohen
Description:
This annual half-day autumn workshop highlights the seasons best new literary releases. Renowned authors and illustrators present their work. Children's literature specialists present book selections and resource listings. It's a great opportunity for participants to network and exchange ideas and opinions. Enrollment includes:
Vanderslice Hall
Contact:
Margaret Cohen
Description:
This annual half-day autumn workshop highlights the seasons best new literary releases. Renowned authors and illustrators present their work. Children's literature specialists present book selections and resource listings. It's a great opportunity for participants to network and exchange ideas and opinions. Enrollment includes:
Jane Yolen is the author of over 200 books for children. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. Her books and stories have won the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula awards, and two Christopher Medals. Her daughter, Heidi Stemple, also writes for children, sometimes with her mother. Together, they'll talk about their lives as writers, both together and apart. Illustrator/author Scott Magoon's playful and charming books include The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster, Monster Ride, and his latest book, Spoon, a collaboration with author Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Allen Kurzweil has written two acclaimed novels for children: Leon and the Spitting Image and Leon and the Champion Chip. He invents and uses many of the scientific instruments featured in his novels. Susannah Richards, professor of children's literature at Eastern Connecticut State University, will present her picks for Best New Books. The conference includes an exhibit of new books and a book sale and signing.Coffee, tea, and pastries at morning registration.
Resource folders with materials from presenting authors/illustrators and experts.
Exhibit of new books, provided by Boston College Lynch School of Educational Resource Center.
Books available for purchase, courtesy of The Children's Book Shop in Brookline.
Author Q&A and book signings.
Cost
$10 BC student rate; $50 for FCB members; $75 for non-members; $25 for students with I.D.More about Boston College
Boston College
Boston College is a private research university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in the New England region of the United States. Its historic campus, one of the earliest examples of Collegiate Gothic architecture in North America, is set on a hilltop six miles (10 km) west of downtown Boston. Although chartered as a university by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1863, Boston College's name reflects its early history as a liberal arts college and preparatory school in Boston's South End. It was the first institution of higher education established in the city, though it later outgrew its urban location and moved to pastoral Chestnut Hill on the city's western edge. Boston College is one of the oldest and largest Jesuit universities in the United States and is home to one of the world's most prominent Catholic theological and philosophical faculties.Post a Countdown Widget
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