Summer 2008 Events

(open to the public)

• Leonard Marcus, author of Minders of Make-Believe, a history of American children’s book publishing from colonial times to the present. He is also the author of  the Margaret Wise Brown biography, Awakened by the Moon.
  June 18, 7:30 p.m., Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119
  
  
• "From Both Sides of the Pond." Sarah Davies, founder of The Greenhouse, a transatlantic literary agency, talks about the children’s book business in the U.S. and the U.K.
  June 20, 7:30 p.m., Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
  
  
• "The Merlin Perplex: Living My Life Backwards."  Candice Ransom, Hollins graduate and author of over 100 books for children, talks about her work           and reads from her newest, Seeing Sky-Blue Pink.
  June 21, 7:30 p.m., Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
  
  
• Nancy Willard, writer-in-residence, talks about her work. She is the Newbery-winning author of A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, as well as numerous other children’s books including Pish-Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch, The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Tale I Told Sasha, The Tortilla Cat, and Shadow Story, as well as novels, essays, and poetry for adults.
  June 23, 7:30 p.m. Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center Auditorium
  
  
• Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, co-authors of The Fall of the Kings. Kushner’s newest novel, The Privilege of the Sword, won the 2007 Locus Award for Best Fantasy novel. Her first novel, Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners,was hailed as the progenitor of the “Mannerpunk” school of fantasy. Her second, Thomas the Rhymer, won both the 1991 World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award. Sherman’s  first novel for younger readers, Changeling, was published in 2006, with a sequel to come next year. Her short stories have appeared in the young adult anthologies The Green Man, Fairy Reel, and Coyote Road.  Her adult novel The Porcelain Dove won the Mythopoeic Award.
  June 27, 7:30 p.m., Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
  
  
• Faculty Reading. Hear our faculty authors read from their own work. Children invited!
  July 16, 7:30 p.m., Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
  
  
• Thirteenth Annual Francelia Butler Student Conference on Children’s Literature. Keynote address by visiting scholar Philip Nel, author of The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats and Dr. Seuss:                  American Icon, and of a biography of Crockett Johnson in progress. He will be on campus through Tuesday, July 22.
  July 19, all day, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center Auditorium
  
  
  
  

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