Class #6, December 17 Panel follow-up Lolly on poetry and verse novels Christina’s booktalk More books (last week, this week) Jacqueline Woodson presentation Book discussion Break Evaluating books — critics & award juries vs. children & adolescents Book jackets, marketing Final words
Author panel Reactions? Thoughts? Surprises?
Author visits Random House advice (very good) ntkit.pdf Planning details eduleauthor.htm Authors collaborative
Communicating with authors from author’s site read info on site first US Mail via publisher Include postage paid envelope for response Be considerate
Christina’s booktalk The Death of Jayson Porter by Jaime Adoff
Poetry More poets and books Horn Book poetry issue Verse novels Poetry and history
More poetry and verse novels
Jacqueline Woodson presentation Eveleen Hsu Hilary Lustick
Book discussion Talk about your bibliographies Discuss Locomotion
Group 1Group 2 Group 3 Vaneeta Ahuja (a) Joanna Batt Lizzie Brook Kathryn Hurley Wendy Israel (a) Hilary Lustick Aradhana Mudambi Christy Ostrowski Holly Takashima Khalilah Ummah Reed Weeden Brette Wolff with Lolly Charlene Deming Michal-Ann Golay Caroline Goldstein Alicia Henriquez Eveleen Hsu Bridget Maher Alana McDonough (a) Erin Simmons Ali Stein (a) Lesley Sylvan Rose Wongsarnpigoon with Jen Megan Chamberlain Carolyn Coates Janelle Colosi Mehgan Greenberg Annie Hoffman Susan Kenien Kelton Myers Julie Rosenberg (a) Hui Xin Tan Frances Tompkins with Christina
Break
Reviews Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Kirkus Reviews Booklist Booklinks School Library Journal Publishers Weekly
Reviewers vs. children National awards State and regional awards Covers and marketing
Covers
Newsletters Notes from the Horn Book REaD Alert (Booklist) QuickTips (Booklinks) Children’s Bookshelf (Publishers Weekly)
Blogs Read Roger (Horn Book) Fuse #8 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast Big A little a
More questions? (General Q&A)
Where to go from here
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