SELECT EVENTS

Coming Up…

February 7: African American Children’s Book Fair

March 8-10: Children’s Literature Festival of Central Missouri

April 21: Brooklyn New School with Torrey Maldonado and Natasha Diaz

May 2: Hudson Children’s Book Festival

2025, Part Two! Highlights…

August 16: Adirondack Family Book Festival

September 27: Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival

October 20-24: Easton Area School District, All K-5

November 1: Bank Street Book Fest

November 3: Brown Bookshelf Tour: CPE II

November 15: DC Public Library with The Brown Bookshelf Team

November 21-23: NCTE Convention, Denver CO

SAMPLE PRESENTATIONS:

Noticed and Noted Biographical author presentation; on writing to ask questions, discover, and explore.

The What and Why of the Who: Creating Rich and Resonant Characters Activities and exercises to build dynamic characters in all kinds of stories.

Play On Words Stretch creativity muscles with theatre and writing games that explore elements of effective storytelling.

The Remix Is Even Better: Revision and Getting to What You Really Want to Say The purpose of revision, developing a plan; sampling of various revision strategies.

So What? The Art of Personal Narrative and Memoir Writing Getting beyond "and then this happened" to write engaging biographical nonfiction.

It's Still A Story Strategies for writing nonfiction that comes alive.

FOR FAMILIES OR ADULTS
Bring the Bookjoy Home! Facilitated conversation and activities on family literacy to support reading and writing connections in the home.

Is the Hero's Journey All There Is? Exploring how our cultural locations inform our storytelling; includes an overview of different forms of storytelling around the world.

Mothering As A Creative Act Reading and writing to celebrate the ways that acts of 'mothering' can enhance our creativity, rather than distracting or taking away from it.

What's So Funny? Review and play with elements of writing humor in children's lit.