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TITLE: Mary Brigid Barrett, Katherine Paterson, Lynda Robb and Steven Kellogg: 2008 National Book Festival
SPEAKER: Mary Brigid Barrett, Steven Kellogg, Katherine Paterson, Lynda Robb
EVENT DATE: 09/27/2008
RUNNING TIME: 32 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Children's authors and illustrators Mary Brigid Barrett, Katherine Paterson and Steven Kellogg speak at the National Book Festival, discussing their collaboration on "Our White House: Looking In and Looking Out" (Candlewick, September 2008).
Speaker Biography: 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, Mass.
Speaker Biography: Steven Kellogg has loved picture books ever since he was a child, when the illustrations of Beatrix Potter and N.C. Wyeth were his early favorites. He grew up in Connecticut, drawing constantly and telling stories to his younger sisters. Now he has illustrated more than 100 books for children and young people, including the more than 30 children's books that he wrote. His latest illustrated writing is "The Presidential Pet" in "Our White House: Looking In and Looking Out" (Candlewick, September 2008). He lives in northern New York state.
Speaker Biography: Both a children's activist and a literacy-library advocate, author Katherine Paterson's books for young people are among the most-honored books in our time, are read around the world and have been translated into 21 languages. She is the winner of two National Book Awards, for "The Master Puppeteer" and "The Great Gilly Hopkins"; two Newbery Medals, for "The Bridge to Terabithia" and "Jacob, Have I Loved"; and one of the few American recipients of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, often called the Nobel Prize of Children's Literature. She is author of "The Eyes and Ears of the Public" in "Our White House: Looking In and Looking Out" (Candlewick, September 2008). As board vice president of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance, she works tirelessly to promote reading and books for children. She lives in Barre, Vt.
Speaker Biography: Lynda Robb is the daughter of Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson. She married Charles S. Robb in the East Room of the White House. Her husband would serve with distinction in Vietnam, and go on to become lieutenant governor, governor and a two-term senator for the state of Virginia. Robb is chairman of the board of "Reading is Fundamental," the nation's largest children's literacy organization. She graduated from the University of Texas and holds honorary doctor of humane letters from Washington and Lee University and Norwich University, and has been honored with a plethora of civic awards for her public service.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2008