Nearly 600 school library-media specialists, teachers, and public librarians are expected to attend The 34th Annual Children's Literature Conference at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education on Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12.

General session speakers include Jack Gantos (author of the "Joey Pigza" books); Pam Muñoz Ryan (poet and author of Esperanza Rising); Walter Dean Myers (Newbery Honor winner for Scorpions, Coretta Scott King Award winner for Now is Your Time!, author of Brown Angels and other "Angels" books; Terri S. Fields (winner of the 2002 "Georgia Children’s Book Award" for Danger in the Desert); Jules Feiffer (winner of the 2002 "Georgia Children’s Picture Storybook" Award for Bark, George

To register or for more information, call 800-884-1381 or visit the web site at:
http://www.gactr.uga.edu/conferences/2003/Apr/10/childlit.phtml

The  annual Children's Literature Conference is sponsored by the Department of Language Education in UGA's College of Education. The conference is chaired by Dr. Linda DeGroff (ldegroff@arches.uga.edu). 

For more information, go to http://www.coe.uga.edu/gachildlit/conference/index.html