You’ve heard a lot about our featured speakers and authors, but I wanted to share a few of the local authors/illustrators and special speakers that would also be at conference for concurrent sessions as well!
Sharon Coatney, former AASL president, will be presenting a concurrent session on using international children’s books across the curriculum for the International Children’s Digital Library: http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
Marjory Wentworth, the SC Poet Laureate, will be speaking on Wednesday and Friday during concurrent sessions. She has a new children’s book that has been published based on one of her poems called Shackles about the true story of when her children dug up a set of slave shackles in their backyard on Sullivan’s Island . This review was published recently in Foreword magazine, “Finally, Legacy Publications has published this month a book for children called Shackles. It’s great material for use in schools as an early introduction to slavery in America because the narrative works much in the same way as good history: there’s adventure, then a mystery, then discovery, disbelief, explanation, and at the end, the need to run out and tell someone. The story is set near Charleston , SC , and it’s summertime. Three little boys are amusing themselves in the backyard, digging for treasure. They have a map from the Pirate Museum , nice black tri-corners, and wooden swords. They dig a hole, but what the oldest boy finds is “an armful of mud and metal. It is all as heavy as bricks, and I almost drop it.” Shackles (978-0-933101-06-7), written by Marjory Heath Wentworth and illustrated by Leslie Darwin Pratt-Thomas, is highly recommended for school libraries.” (http://www.forewordmagazine.com/blogs/soundoff/PermaLink,guid,5a59646f-286a-4537-9292-b964dfc245c0.aspx )
Julia McLaughlin and Ann Marie McKay will be presenting on Thursday and Friday during concurrent sessions talking about their new book, Mr. Gator Hits the Beach. http://www.legacypublications.com/books/mr-gator-hits-the-beach.php. It looks awesome!
Kate Salley Palmer will be presenting on Wednesday and Friday during concurrent sessions on her new book, Almost Invisible: Black Patriots of the American Revolution, the third in the series with Palmetto: Symbol of Courage and Francis Marion and the Legend of the Swamp Fox. http://www.warbranchpress.com/almostinvisible.html
Dave McDonald, local author/cartoonist, will be presenting sessions on his Hamster Sam line of graphic novel. http://www.hamstersam.com/
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