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Mary Brigid Barrett
Teens & Children Pavilion
12:30-1:10 pm
Book Signing
2:30-3:30 pm
Mary Brigid Barrett is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator, a professional educator and president/executive director of the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance (NCBLA). Her books include Sing to the Stars, a “Best Book” of the National Council of Social Studies Teachers; Day Care Days, winner of the Oppenheim Gold Award; and The Man of the House at Huffington Row, a “Best Book” of the National Storyteller Association. She is editor of the NCBLA publication Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (Candlewick, September 2008), a read-aloud family anthology of prose, poetry, drama, nonfiction and art that promotes reading and historical literacy. All profits for Our White House will support the work and programs of the NCBLA. She lives in Franklin, Massachusetts.