enjoying children's literature
O'ahu
Conference
Workshop & Activities
"A" Sessions
"B" Sessions
"C" Sessions
"D" Sessions
"E" Sessions
The
Thirteenth Biennial Conference
on Literature
and Hawai'i's Children
Imagining
Other Lives,Other
Times, Other Places
If
you are interested in
talking
about,
working with,
or
creating children's
literature, join this
June
15-17 gathering
of parents, grandparents,
educators, librarians, writers, illustrators, teenagers,
children,
and
all those
who
value the wonder
and wisdom
of children's literature.
FEATURED GUESTS
Karen Hesse is the author of Letters from Rifka (National Jewish Book Award), Out of the Dust (Newbery Award and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction), The Music of Dolphins, Come On, Rain!, Cats in Krasinski Square, and Just Juice. (Photo courtesy of Cheryl Liston)
Jerry Pinkney has illustrated more than 75 children's books and received numerous Caldecott Honors (Noah's Ark, The Ugly Duckling, John Henry, The Talking Eggs, Mirandy and Brother Wind) and Coretta Scott King Awards (Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, and others).
Contact
information
For more information or a Conference brochure, please send your name,
address and phone number to CLH@hawaii.edu or
Children's Literature Hawai'i, c/o UH-Manoa Dept. of English, 1733
Donaghho Rd., Honolulu, HI 96822. You may also call Children's Literature
Hawai'i at (808) 956-7559.
Sponsored by Children's Literature Hawai'i and the UH-Manoa Department of English, with support from the Hawai'i Council for the Humanities, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and other organizations and individuals.