Announcements

UTAH CHILDREN'S WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS

Announcement List--April 16, 2002

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CONGRATULATIONS!

To Don H. Staheli, who won the 2002 Association for Mormon Letters Picture Book award for his book THE WALNUT TREE.

To Carol Lynch Williams, who won the 2002 Association for Mormon Letters Middle Grade novel award for her books CAROLINA AUTUMN, CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN, and others.

To Louise Plummer, who won the 2002 Association for Mormon Letters Young Adult Novel award for her book DANCE FOR THREE.

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NEW BOOKS

from Carol Lynch Williams
A MOTHER TO EMBARRASS ME, March 2002, Delacorte, middle-grade

from Rick Walton
BRAIN WAVES, March 2002, American Girl, activity
CARS AT PLAY, with Ann Walton, February 2002, Putnam, picture book
BERTIE WAS A WATCHDOG, April 2002, Candlewick, picture book

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COMING SOON

May
from Ann Cannon, ON THE GO WITH PIRATE PETE AND PIRATE JOE, Viking, Easy-to-Read
from Chris Crowe, MISSISSIPPI TRIAL, 1955, Phyllis Fogelman Books, young adult

July
from Rick Walton, illustrated by Julie Olsen, HERD OF COWS, FLOCK OF SHEEP, Gibbs Smith, picture book

September
from Ann Cannon, CHARLOTTE'S ROSE, Random House, middle grade

October
from Randall Wright, A HUNDRED DAYS FROM HOME, Holt, young adult

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RECENT SALES

Chris Crowe, GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER: THE EMMETT TILL CASE, to Phyllis Fogelman Books

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APPEARANCES

Last week of April--Carol Lynch Williams, Texas schools and Texas Library Association

May 4th, morning--Carol Lynch Williams, Granite School District Young Authors

May 4th, afternoon--Carol Lynch Williams, League of Utah Writers

May 12/13--Rick Walton, West Coast Literacy Conference, Palm Springs, CA

June 13--Mike Tunnell, Ron Woods, Laurel Brady, Dean Hughes, Carol Lynch Williams, in an evening with Young Adult writers, at the Read Leaf Bookstore in Springville.

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