Overcoming Challenges:
A Program for Writers, Illustrators,
and Educators
Saturday, October 1, 2012, 10:00 – 3:30
Danforth Museum of Art
123 Union Avenue, Framingham, MA
Cost: SCBWI, PEN NE, FCB, & Danforth members, $20.00; Non-members: $25.00
Registration fee includes admission to the museum.
No food or beverages provided. Please bring your own lunch and eat at the museum with other attendees.
Schedule
10:00–10:30 Registration and Networking
10:30–12:00 “My Biggest Career Challenge and How I Solved It”
Panelists: Jacqueline Davies, Kathryn Lasky, Lois Lowry, and Bill Thomson
Four children’s book creators discuss the most significant hurdles they’ve
overcome in producing their work, selling it to publishers, and promoting it to educators, booksellers, and the general public.
overcome in producing their work, selling it to publishers, and promoting it to educators, booksellers, and the general public.
12:00-1:00 Bring a bag lunch and eat with other workshop attendees
1:00-2:30 “My Biggest Writing/Illustrating Challenge and How I Solved It”
Panelists: Jacqueline Davies, Kathryn Lasky, Lois Lowry, and Bill Thomson
Four children’s book creators discuss the struggles they’ve faced while producing the children’s books we know and love. Their stories will inform and inspire writers, illustrators, educators, and children’s book enthusiasts.
2:30 – 3:30 Book Sale and Signing
Meet Jacqueline Davies, Kathryn Lasky, Lois Lowry, and Bill Thomson and have them sign the books they created
Jacqueline Davies has written four middle-grade novels and three picture books. Her newest title, The Lemonade Crime is a sequel to The Lemonade War, which was a Massachusetts Book Award Honor winner.
Newbery Honor-winning author Kathryn Lasky is both prolific and versatile. Her more than one hundreds books for children include nonfiction and picture books as well as historical fiction and fantasy novels.
During her celebrated career, children’s book author Lois Lowry has explored such complex issues as racism, terminal illness, and the Holocaust. She won the Newbery Medal in 1990 for Number the Stars and again in 1994 for The Giver.
Billl Thomson has illustrated three picture books and is the creator of the award-winning wordless picture book Chalk.
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