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| The 2008 Spring Workshop will focus on "Biography for Children and Young Adults" and will feature three authors - Diane Stanley, Elizabeth Partridge, and Susan Goldman Rubin - who will each discuss their approach to writing biographies for young readers. Issues related to the writing of biographies will also be discussed in a panel discussion with the three authors. Books written by each author will be available for purchase adn a book signing will follow the panel discussion. |
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Biography
for Children
and Young Adults featuring
Keynote Speaker
Diane Stanley
with Authors
Susan Goldman Rubin
and
Elizabeth Partridge
Saturday, April 12, 2008
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Glendale Public Library
222 E. Harvard St.
Glendale, CA 91205
For more information:
(323) 651-3513
MAIL IN REGISTRATION FORM
ONLINE REGISTRATION
ONLINE BOOK SALE
** New Online Feature **-
You can now pre-order and pre-pay for any of the speakers' featured books and have them waiting for you upon your arrival to the Spring Workshop.
Brochure (pdf)
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Diane Stanley is the receipient of the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award and the 2008 Mazza Medallion Award for the body of her work. Diane has written and illustrated eleven biographies so far, as well as novels and picture books. She is currently working on her twelfth biography entitled Mozard: the Wonder Child: A Puppet Play in Three Acts. For more information, please see Diane's website: www.dianestanley.com |
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Susan Goldman Rubin writes biographies and nonfiction books that reflect her strong interest in art. Her biographies include books about Frank Lloyd Wright, Margaret Bourke-White, Steven Spielberg, Freidl Dicker-Brandeis, and Haym Salomon, as well as art books done in conjunction with museum exhibitions about Degas, Gauguin, and Van Gogh.. For more information, please see Susan's website: www.susangoldmanrubin.com |
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Elizabeth Partridge has written numerous books for children and young adults. Her honors include a National Book Award nomination and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for non-fiction for This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie. Her biography, Restless Spirit: the Life and Work of Dorothea Lange won a BABRA, a Golden Kite Honor Award, and the Jane Addams Honor Book Award. To learn more about Elizabeth, please visit her website: www.elizabethpartridge.com |
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Book Discussion Groups
are now taking place all over Southern California for
Children's Literature Council Members
See BOOK DISCUSSIONS for meeting times and locations.
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Bulletin
Board
Upcoming Children's Literature Events
in the Southern California Area:
| April 12, 2008 |
Children's Literature Council's
2008 Spring Workshop
"Biography for Children and Young Adults"
with Diane Stanley, Susan Goldman Rubin, and Elizabeth Partridge
Glendale Public Library
222 E. Harvard Street
Glendale, CA 91205
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
SEE EVENTS
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| April 13 - June 15, 2008 |
"Over Rainbows and Down Rabbit Holes"
Exhibit of Children's Book Illustrators
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State St
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 963-4364
More Information
Sundays at Central Library
Conversations with Children's Book Authors
April 13 - Jerrry Pinkney 2:00 p.m.
May 11 - Gerald McDermott 2:00 p.m.
For more information: 805-564-5621
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| June 7, 2008 |
Antioch University Los Angeles First Annual Children’s Literature Conference Sign in begins at 9:30 am.
Authors Eve Bunting and Susan Patron will speak and answer audience questions. The highlight of the day is the presentation of the Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award, a new national children’s book award. Visit our website at www.upstandersaward.org for more information.
This conference will be held at Antioch University Los Angeles, 400 Corporate Pointe, Culver City, CA 90230, 310.578.1080 x352.
One CEU credit will be available for this conference.
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Bulletin Board, please contact webmaster@childrensliteraturecouncil.org
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