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"Overcoming Challenges" at Eric Carle Museum, 13 Mar 2010

Overcoming Challenges: A Program for Writers and Illustrators

Saturday, March 13, 2009, 10:00 - 3:30
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
125 West Bay Road, Amherst, MA

Four veteran authors and author-illustrators participate in a two-part program that addresses the challenges we all face as writers and illustrators of children's book. A book sale and signing will round out the day.

Elise Broach is the author of six picture books and three novels. Both When Dinosaurs Came with Everything and Masterpiece won the E. B. White Read Aloud Award.

Lita Judge combines her love of history and nature to write and illustrate children's books. Her first picture book, One Thousand Tracings, won the 2008 IRA Children's Book Award and was a Jane Addams Award Honoree.

Grace Lin is the author/illustrator of more than a dozen picture books. Also an author of middle grade fiction, Grace's most recent novel Where the Mountain Meets the Moon was the 2009 Parents' Choice Gold Winner.

Sara Pennypacker is the author of the New York Times best-selling Clementine series, two other chapter book series, and two picture books, one of which won the 2007 Golden Kite Award.

For additional information, directions, and registration form, click here.

Questions: Email Melissa Stewart.