A CELEBRATION OF THE PICTURE BOOK

                 on our 40th Anniversary

                                           Schedule of Events

Friday, April 21, 2012

Tour                                                                                   3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Tour of Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature (Beinecke Library); Timothy Young, Curator

Opening Keynote Address                                                 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm

Rosemary Wells, Author and Illustrator of Max and Ruby, Yoko, Read to Your Bunny (preceded by a reception at 5:15 pm)

 

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Registration                                                                         8:00 am - 9:00 am

Panel 1: Creating Children's Picture Books                     9:00 am - 10:30 am

 Deborah Freedman, Author/Illustrator of Scribble

 Victoria Kann, Author/Illustrator of Pinkalicious

 Wendell Minor, Illustrator of Night Flight

 Nancy Tafuri, Author/Illustrator of Have You Seen My Duckling?

             Moderator: Michael Sampson, Author of Chicka, Chicka 1,2,3 (with Bill MArtin, Jr.)                            and Dean, School of Education, Southern Connecticut State University

Coffee Break

Panel 2: Using Children's Picture Books                         11:00 am - 12:30 pm

 Joshua Berrios, Teacher, Gateway Community College Early Learning Center

 Lyla Johnson, Facilitator, Family Read, Connecticut Humanities Council

 Christopher Korenowsky, City Librarian, New Haven

 Glory J. Smith, Director, Morning Glory Early Learning Center, LLC.

              Moderator: Ethel Berger, Author/Illustrator and Secretary, Board of Directors,                       New Haven Reads

Panel 3: The History and Future of Children's Picture Books   1:30 pm - 3 pm

 Maureen Corcoran, Owner, Breakwater Books, Guilford, Ct

 Pamela Paul, Children's Book Editor, The New York Times Book Review

 Katie Trumpener, Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Yale                University

Timothy Young, Curator, Beinecke Library, Yale University

                Moderator: Linda Friedlaender, Curator of Education, Yale Center for British Art

Closing Keynote Address                                                      3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Megan Lambert, Instructor, Center for the Study of Children's Literature, Simmons College, and former Literature and Outreach Coordinator, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

 

Sunday, April 22, 2012 

Wexler-Grant Community School, 55 Foote Street, New Haven, CT 06511

      Readings for children and parents by local authors and celebrities

      Musical Entertainment

      Donations of new and gently used books to New Haven Reads

                    EBJ Birthday cupcakes for everyone to celebrate our 40th year

 

     For more information, please contact Jessica Brantley (jessica.brantley@yale.edu) or                     Sandra Bishop-Josef (sandra.bishop@yale.edu)