Announcements

UTAH CHILDREN'S WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS

Announcement List--December 14, 2002


CONGRATULATIONS!

To Carla Morris, Provo City Children's Librarian, chosen to be a 2004 Caldecott judge.

To Stephen Wunderli, who wrote the story that Walter Cronkite narrated in his performance this month with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

To Kimberley Heuston, whose book THE SHAKERESS was named one of the top ten children's books of 2002 by the Washington Post.


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COMING SOON

January, 2003
from Gloria Skurzynski and Alane Ferguson, book 12 in their National Parks Mystery series.
from Mette Harrison, THE MONSTER IN ME, Holiday House, middle grade.
from Rick Walton, BUNNIES ON THE GO, HarperCollins, picture book.

Spring, 2003
from Michael Tunnell, THE PRYDAIN COMPANION, a guide to Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, Henry Holt.


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APPEARANCES AND EVENTS


January 8--Rick Walton will be one of the presenters at Midvale's Midvalley Elementary's Writers Workshop.

January 13--Rick Walton will be at Manila Elementary in Pleasant Grove.

February 8-9--Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) National Mid-Year Conference, New York City.

February 13-15--Life, the Universe, & Everything XXI, BYU, http://humanities.byu.edu/ltue.

March 21-22--UVSC Children's Literature Conference.

April 8--Rick Walton will be speaking to the Davis School District Librarians at Knowlton Elementary in Farmington, from 4-6 pm.



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LOOKING WAY AHEAD

May 4-8, 2003--International Reading Association, Orlando, Florida.

May 23-25, 2003--Conduit 13: Salt Lake's Science Fiction Weekend.

May 30-June 1, 2003--Book Expo America, Los Angeles.

June 19-25, 2003--American Library Association annual conference, Toronto, Canada.

July 7-11, 2003--BYU Writing for Young Readers Workshop.

July 18-19, 2003--BYU Books for Young Readers Symposium--Guests include Bethanne Anderson, Franny Billingsley, Susan Fletcher, Russell Freedman, David Small, Laurence Yep.


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