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2011 Wendlyn Van Draanen "Read the Movie? Using Movies Based on Books to Promote Literacy"
featuring
Author Wendlyn Van Draanen, Screenwriter Carl Gottleib, and Mary Menzel, Director of California Center for the Book as Moderator
     
2010 "Old Passions - New Technologies: Children's and Young Adult Literature in a Web 2.0 World"
featuring
Tracy Grand, Elizabeth Khuri Chandler, Gregory Pincus, and Eva Mitnick
     
2009 Megan Lambert

"I Can Read It by Myself...But Do I Want to?  Inspiring Emergent Readers"
featuring
Megan Lambert
Eric Carle Picture Book Museum, Boston, MA.
PHOTOS

2008 Diane Stanley

"Biography for Children and Young Adults"
featuring
Diane Stanley, Elizabeth Partridge and Susan Goldman Rubin
PHOTOS

2007 Donald Davis

"Let's Tell Stories: A Day of Storytelling for Librarians, Teachers, and Families"
featuring Storytellers
Donald Davis, Gay Ducey, Karen Golden, Padraic Keohane, Karen Rae Kraut, and Leslie Perry

2006 Michele Gorman and Tricia Suellentrop

"Inspiring the Next Generation of Teen Readers"
featuring Teen Librarians Michele Gorman and Tricia Suellentrop
PHOTOS

2005 Michael Sullivan "Boys and Books"

"Connecting Boys with Books"
featuring Michael Sullivan
Author of Connecting Boys With Books: What Libraries Can Do
PHOTOS

2004

"Breaking Through: Latinos and Literature for Youth"
featuring Francisco Jimenez, Tony Johnston, and Simon Silva
PHOTOS

2003

"Radical Change: Creative Non-Fiction for Youth"
featuring Eliza Dresang Author of Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital Age (H.W. Wilson, 2000), Nancy Smiler Levinson, and Kathleen Krull

2002 "The Business of Books: The Marketing and Reviewing of Books for Children and Teens"
featuring Marcus Miller, Susan Patron, and Dr. Marilyn Robertson
2001: Michael Cart

"Visual Literacy: Looking at Children's Book Illustration"
featuring Michael Cart, Marla Frazee, Joe Cepeda, and Linda Duke

 

2000:

"Lets Talk About Books: How to Form and Lead Children's and Young Adult Book Discussion Groups"
featuring Ginny Moore Kruse
of the Cooperative Children's Book Center in Madison, Wisconsin.

 

1999: "Celebrating Poetry: The Gifts of Myra Cohn Livingston"
featuring X.J. Kennedy, Debra Chandra, Monica Gunning, Kristine O'Connell George, and Ann Paul
1998: "Looking at Children's Books Through the Lens of Gender"
featuring Kathleen Odean
1997:

"Bibliorama! The Best 75 YA Books So Far"
featuring Patty Campbell
1996:

 

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"The Creative Spirit: Linking Children, Literature, and Learning"
featuring Dr. Sally Thomas, Pat Kunkel, Dr. Virginia Walter, and Anne Connor
1995:

 

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“Visual Literacy:  Looking at Children’s Book Illustration”
with Joanna Cotler, Delores Johnson, Robin Rector-Krupp, Deborah Nourse Lattimore, and Grace Ruth, Chair of the 1995 Caldecott Committee on Evaluation of Picture Books.

 

1994:

 

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"What's on Everybody's Mind: Personal and professional Survival"
featuring
Bessie Egan, Dr. Rick Salway,
and Sue Curzon.
1993: Walter Mayes "Share the Enthusiasm: Motivating Others to Read"
featuring
Walter Mayes
, Marketing Department of Bantam Doubleday Dell.
1992

 

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“Marketing the Library:  Its Services and Collections”
featuring
Jack Buchanan, Director, Santa Maria Public Library, with panelists, Jody Fickes, Adventures for Kids Bookstore and Ellen Nathan Elementary School Librarian
1991

 

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“Horn Book Symposium,”
featuring
Anita Silvey, The Challenges of Literary Criticism
1990

 

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“Non-Fiction for a New Age”
featuring
James Cross Giblin, Beverly Korbin, and Betty Carter—writing & publishing, selection & evaluation, techniques for using non-fiction

1989

 

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Charlotte Huck & 12 panelists
1988

 

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“The Challenge of Sharing Books"
featuring
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Helping communities accept the diversity in literature for young people

1987

 

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“Implementing the California Reading Initiative”
1986

 

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The Pleasure of Spoken Language as an Introduction to Literature”
featuring
Augusta Baker, “Bringing Children and Books Together through Storytelling; Toddler Storyhour
1985

 

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“Braving a New Frontier:  Cable TV & Library Services to Children”
1984

 

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"Inspiring an Early Love of Books to Combat the Rising Tide of Illiteracy and Mediocrity"
featuring Jim Trelease

1983

 

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"Children's Films and Literature"
featuring Shana Herzog, Mike Garafalo, Elaine Adder, Eileen Tokar, Kay Simonette, and Cathy Saldin
1982

 

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"Celebrating the Work of Hans Christian Andersen"
1981

 

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"Children as Mirrors: What Children Learn from literature
featuring Joanne Lynn, Carolyn Murry, and Philip Dreyer.

1980

 

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"Welcome to Our Shores: How Can We Provide a Cultural Exchange with Children and Young People from Southeast Asia?"
1979

 

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“Book Production in the International Year of the Child”
1978

 

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Maria Gripe “Storytelling, Film, Songs, and Games for 9-13 Year Olds; New Directions in Book Binding
1977

 

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1976   Arbuthnot Lecture
featuring
Jean Fritz
(co-sponsored with 13 other local institutions)
1975   “Are Children’s Books an Endangered Species?”
Six panelists at El Camino College
1974   “Springboards to Reading:  A Workshop to Explore Creative Approaches to Literature with Child Involvement as the Key.”—Choose two workshops out of four:  Creative Writing, Child Participation in Storytelling, Puppetry, Literature through Media, at Glendale High School
1973   “Take Wing:  Beyond the Language Barrier”
“Trends in Children’s Literature:  An International Point of View,” Dr.Richard Bamberger;
“Children’s Films with an International Flavor”
“The Pleasures of Pantomime:  A Worldwide Language,” Jack Albee, Mime
1972   “Creative Arts and Children’s Literature” Music, Art, Poetry, Creative dramatics, Weston Woods, cosponsored by Cal State Fullerton
1971   Puppetry Workshop
1970   Storytelling Workshop.  Guests:  Doris Gates & Frances Clarke Sayers film; Demonstrations, Jeanette Fijita (Preschool), Binnie Tate Wilkin (“Ethnic”), Van Windham (Folktale), jointly sponsored by SCCLCYP & UCLA Extension
1969   “A Program to Surprise & Delight Authors interested in Children and Their Literature,” & International Children’s Book Day, Mildred Batchelder Award, & Hans Christian Anderson Award, Anne Pelowski, guest speaker
1966  

"Symposium on Storytelling"
featuring
Augusta Baker
(Co-sponsored w/CLA’s Children’s & Young People’s Association)

1965   Screening of the film, The Lively Art of the Picture Book, Graphic Arts Festival, UCLA, Frances Clarke Sayers,
“In Celebration of Picture Books”
1964   Screening of the film, Island of the Blue Dolphins
     
     

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