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Authors:
Come meet these great authors! Authors will appear during concurrent
sessions on Saturday.
¡Sí,
tú puedes!
Yes, you can! Carmen, a Puerto Rican
who didn't learn English until she was twenty-seven, is on
a mission. She wants students to learn that ¡Sí,
se puede! Yes, you can learn another language. She also wants
all students to learn about Latino heroes. She will speak about
her fears when writing the award winning César: ¡Sí,
se puede! Yes, We Can! and share activities that librarians
can use to encourage students to learn more about Latinos.
Carmen will also speak about and read from her upcoming book Frida: ¡Viva
la vida! Long Live Life and the book she is writing about
Diego Rivera. |
Carmen Bernier-Grand |
Ellen Howard |
What a Grand "Idee"
: One writer's journey through grief
and celebration and faith to happily ever after (maybe).
Ellen Howard will talk about the writing of her four log
cabin books. The newest is the just-released LOG CABIN WEDDING |
| Beyond Imagination: Writing Alphabet of
Dreams With pictures and stories, Susan will
tell of her 5-year odyssey to write Alphabet of Dreams ,
her new book about a boy who has prescient dreams, the older
sister who tries to protect him, and a caravan journey with
the Three Wise Men. She'll show how her travels to research
the book took her to places beyond what she was capable of
imagining beforehand: to a picnic with a Kurdish family near
the Iraqi border, to an ancient Iranian village, to camels
in the land of Moab (Utah), and more. |
Susan Fletcher |
Linda Crew |
The Oregon Trail: Turning History into Literature
Author
Linda Crew will discuss the research and writing of her most
recent book, A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon:1845, winner
of the Oregon Book Award and other honors. Linda's slides document
the various sources of inspiration for her story and her collection
of Oregon Trail art, as well as the research journey she and
her husband took along the trail from Missouri to their home
in the Willamette Valley. |
Drawing on Life! An Illustrator talks about finding (and using)
ideas from everyday life. Ideas spring up anywhere and
everywhere like weeds; in the dark, in the park, on the playground
at school, even in the cracks of sidewalks. Seeing them is
one thing, developing them is another. Carolyn will show how
she uses everyday activities, situations and dilemmas to connect
with children all over the world. |
Carolyn Digby Conahan |
David
Gifaldi |
Searching for Story
Where do stories come from? Locked away
in "rooms" of
one's childhood? Entangled in the gauze of the unconscious?
Do characters, situations, first lines simply "arrive" unbidden?
Or are there steps the writer takes to access the story gems
that await his/her discovery? In this session we'll discuss
the many paths writers take in uncovering the stories they
need to tell. |
Michael E. Ross, author "An author's journey-the
story of his experimental and experiential approach to creating
non-fiction books for kids and young adults"
What happened when a young teacher started writing and illustrating
his own books? Michael Elsohn Ross will explain how his journeys
as a writer, educator, and artist merged to create his own
children's book writing career. Mr. Ross's books reflect
both his educational experiences, and love of the scientist
and artist that lives in every child. Michael will also take
you on a tour of the creation of a book from the germination
of an idea to its arrival as a new title in your library. |
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