What's New At Little, Brown
We're feverishly preparing for Fall! First up: The Horn Book Award ceremony on October 3rd, celebrating Fiction Winner, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, and Picture Book Honor Book Fred Stays with Me! by Nancy Coffelt and Tricia Tusa.
Next, we're off to Nashville for first ever YALSA Symposium with Svetlana Chmakova (Night School) and Julie Anne Peters (Luna, Between Mom & Jo)
Then we'll jet off to San Antonio for the National Council of Teachers of English and the ALAN Workshop. The conference calendar lists all the LBYR authors featured there.
This is the perfect time to think about scheduling an author visit with an LBYR author or illustrator. Visit the author apperance page for a complete list of available authors and illustrators with their books, fees, and other informtaion. You can request a visit via the online form or send an email to author.appearances@hbgusa.com.
If you are an educator who needs a desk copy of an LBYR or Yen Press book, you can email LBYRGalleys@hbgusa.com. We'll need your institution's address, the course number and registration. And the book title.
For anything else, drop us a line at littebrownschool@hbgusa.com and we'll try to find the answer. We'd love to hear from you!
Conference Calendar
Visit the Little, Brown booth at these conferences at meet the best authors and illustrators in modern children's literature!
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YALSA YA Symposium
in Nashville November 7 - 9 |
Svetlana Chmatkova
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Julie Anne Peters
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NCTE/ALAN
in San Antonio November 20 - 25 |
Sean Beaudoin
(Going Nowhere Faster) |
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Ann Dee Ellis
(This Is What I Did) |
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Justina Chen Headley
(Girl Overboard) |
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Gail Giles
(Right Behind You) |
ALA Midwinter ‘09
in Denver
January 23 - 26 |
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IRA ’09
in Phoenix February 21 - 25 |
Chris Gall
(There's Nothing to Do on Mars) |
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Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
(Suddenly Supernatural) |
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TLA ‘09
in Houston |
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IRA ’09
in Minneapolis
May 3 - 7 |
Robie Harris
(Mail Harry to the Moon) |
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Kirk Scroggs
(Wiley & Grampa books) |
Key Web Sites for News and Events in Children's Books
Want to learn more about news, events and views in Children's Literature? Visit these web sites to learn more.
- NEW! October 15: Happy 100th Birthday to the Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education in New York City. To celebrate one century and to plan for another the Committee is hosting a benefit starring two internationally acclaimed children's book creators: Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury. The event will take place October 15, 2008 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at Bank Street College at 112th St & Broadway. Need directions and more information? Call 212.678.1654.
- October 23 - 25: The Rabbit Hill Festival of Literature in Westport, Connecticut. This is the eighth year of this festival, celebrating the legacy of Westport resident Robert Lawson. It has quickly become a premier event focussing on picture book authors and illustrators. For more information and registration, please visit www.westportlibrary.org/rabbithillfestival.
- Octobeer 25: If you are in the Hudson Valley, New York region check out the Children's Literature Connection Fall Symposium on The Art of the Book. From concept to publication (and publicity), every stage is the creation of a picture book will be discussed by the proffessionals who make it happen. For more information and registration, please visit http://www.teachercenter.org./
- October 17 - 18: The Center for Children's Literature at Carthage Collebe in Kenosha, Wisconsin will hold it's second annual symposium on The Business of Children's Publishing. For further information, please visit www.carthage.edu/childliberature or call 262.552.5480.
- November 1: New York Public Library and School Library Journal present the 2008 Book Fest. Panels, book discussion groups and speakers will fill the Celeste Bartos Forum at 5th Avenue & 42nd St. For more information and registration, please visit www.nypl.org/events/bookfest.html.
- April 1 - 3, 2009: The 42nd Annual Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival will take place at the Southern Mississippi Thad Cochran Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Learn more at www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum.
- www.ala.org/yalsa For over 50 years the Young Adult Library Services Association has been advocacy and training for librarians specializing in teen services. A section of the American Library Association, they sponor the Michael L. Printz Award, the Best Books for Young Adults list, the Quick Picks list and, now, the Great Graphic Novels for Teens list. And that's just the begining. This fall they'll host their first YA Lit Symposium in Nashville.
- http://www.alan-ya.org/ The Adolescent Literature Action Network holds an annaul workshop which draws 400 of the most enthusiastic YA Lit educators, reviewers, editors and writers from around the country.
- http://professornana.livejournal.com/ If Teri Lesesne, The Goddess of YA Lit, does not know something about teen lit, it is not knowable.
- www.bankstreet.edu/bookcom A go to resource for titles for younger readers
- www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc The Cooperative Children's Book Center, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is one of the premier research centers for children's literature.
Do you have news and web site to share? Let us know at LittleBrownSchool@hbgusa.com!