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Look
for it at your local bookstore, or it can be ordered from online
sources.
Leroy,
NY: A visit to the Leroy Public Library and Wolcott Street
School, where the administration bought every single student in
4th through 7th grades a hardback copy of A Single Shard--wow!
New York: I spoke at the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators midyear conference at the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan. The Saturday luncheon crowd was warm and supportive, and the next day I gave a joint presentation with my editor Dinah Stevenson from Clarion Books. The best part of these conferences is meeting up with old friends and making new ones--what fun to spend a weekend with people who all love books!
Vancouver:
The Serendipity Conference run by the Vancouver Children's
Literature Roundtable. The awesome Ron Jobe was in charge and he
and his cohorts provided me with a terrific two days amid the beautiful
surroundings of coastal British Columbia. Dinah Stevenson and I
presented together again, and I got to listen to the other speakers:
nonfiction author Linda Granfield; author/illustrator Chris Riddell,
winner of the 2002 Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration in England;
and the legendary Katherine Paterson. Couldn't have been better!
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With concerns about war a part of our daily lives these days, I
thought readers might be interested in the link below, to a page
put together by author Uma Krishnaswami. It's a list of books for
young people on conflict, war, and peace. I'll be reading titles
like these in the days to come, and I hope you will too.
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