i spent a couple of weeks thinking about how i would get started and then i saw an email subject line that caught my eye: "What Are Wild Books?" i never heard the term before so i read The Daily Heller article a little more. i felt like it was calling my name - coming up was an event at the New School about this topic called, "Where the WIld Books Are" and it was about books from other countries! i signed up immediately.
Presenters:
- Leonard S. Marcus, author; eminent historian, critic of children’s literature.
- Betsy Bird, critic of children’s literature; author; producer of fusenumber8.
- Christine Plu, professor of children’s literature at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris-Seine.
- Denise von Stockar, critic of children’s literature (MS Education, University of California, Berkeley).
- Giorgia Grilli, professor of children’s literature at the Bologna University; founder of the Center of Research in Children’s Literature at the Bologna University
- Tara Books, an independent publishing house based in Chennai, South India.
- Junko Yokota, professor emeritus at National Louis University, Chicago; children’s book critic and Asian picture book specialist.
Panelists:
- Steven Guarnaccia Moderator, artist, author (Goldilocks and the Three Bears: a Tale Moderne; The Three Pigs, An Architectural Tale), Associate Professor of Illustration, Parsons School of Design.
- Claudia Bedrick, independent publisher of Enchanted Lion Books.
- Etienne Delessert, artist; author (Ionesco’s Stories 1,2,3,4; Night Circus), publisher.
- David Macaulay, artist; author (The Way Things Work; Black and White), publisher.
not only was the event free, it could provide me some background to how childrens' books are published in the US and i can possibly find some resources for my project. it was such a wild card for me to find this event and i am so excited about what i will learn!
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