The 41st Annual Conference on Children’s Literature will be held on March 19–20, 2010.
Featured speakers
Robert Burleigh is author of Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh; Stealing Home Jackie Robinson: Against All Odds; Hoops and, most recently, One Giant Leap.
Kadir Nelson is the illustrator of Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln; We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, and Henry's Freedom Box, a Caldecott Honor Book
Fred Newman is a host of PBS’s award-winning literacy program Between the Lions. He also is a sound effects man for A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor. He is author of Mouth Sounds.
Andrea Davis Pinkney is author of Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, a Coretta Scott King Award winner; Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, a Carter G. Woodson Award winner; and Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation. She is a vice president and Executive Editor of Scholastic Trade books.
Margie Palatini is author of Sweet Tooth, winner of the 2008-09 Georgia picture storybook award. Other books include Bad Boys, and Three Silly Billies.
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2008-2009 Georgia Children’s Book Award Winners
Picture Storybook Award Winner:
Sweet Tooth by Margie Palatini
Illustrated by Jack E. Davis
Book Award Winner:
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Teaching links and resources for the 2009–2010 Storybook & Book Nominees
Picture Storybook Nominees (K-4)
Book Nominees (4-8)
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