1. Class #6, December 17  Panel follow-up  Lolly on poetry and verse novels  Christina’s booktalk  More books (last week, this week)  Jacqueline Woodson presentation  Book discussion Break  Evaluating books — critics & award juries vs. children & adolescents  Book jackets, marketing  Final words

2. Author panel Reactions? Thoughts? Surprises?

3. Author visits Random House advice (very good) http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/authors/eve ntkit.pdf Planning details http://childrensbooks.about.com/library/howto/htsch eduleauthor.htm Authors collaborative http://www.visitingauthors.com/helpful_articles.html

4. Communicating with authors  E-mail from author’s site read info on site first  US Mail via publisher Include postage paid envelope for response  Be considerate

5. Christina’s booktalk The Death of Jayson Porter by Jaime Adoff

6. Poetry  More poets and books  Horn Book poetry issue  Verse novels  Poetry and history

7. More poetry and verse novels

8. Jacqueline Woodson presentation Eveleen Hsu Hilary Lustick

9. Book discussion  Talk about your bibliographies  Discuss Locomotion

10. Group 1Group 2 Group 3 Vaneeta Ahuja (a) Joanna Batt Lizzie Brook Kathryn Hurley Wendy Israel (a) Hilary Lustick Aradhana Mudambi Christy Ostrowski Holly Takashima Khalilah Ummah Reed Weeden Brette Wolff with Lolly Charlene Deming Michal-Ann Golay Caroline Goldstein Alicia Henriquez Eveleen Hsu Bridget Maher Alana McDonough (a) Erin Simmons Ali Stein (a) Lesley Sylvan Rose Wongsarnpigoon with Jen Megan Chamberlain Carolyn Coates Janelle Colosi Mehgan Greenberg Annie Hoffman Susan Kenien Kelton Myers Julie Rosenberg (a) Hui Xin Tan Frances Tompkins with Christina

11. Break

12. Reviews  Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books  Kirkus Reviews  Booklist  Booklinks  School Library Journal  Publishers Weekly

13. Reviewers vs. children  National awards http://www.hbook.com/resources/awards/national.asp http://www.hbook.com/resources/awards/national.asp  State and regional awards http://www.hbook.com/resources/awards/state.asp http://www.hbook.com/resources/awards/state.asp  Covers and marketing

14. Covers

15. Newsletters  Notes from the Horn Book http://www.hbook.com/newsletter/index.html http://www.hbook.com/newsletter/index.html  REaD Alert (Booklist) http://link.ixs1.net/s/ve?eli=l281900&si=1184915027&cfc=3html http://link.ixs1.net/s/ve?eli=l281900&si=1184915027&cfc=3html  QuickTips (Booklinks) http://link.ixs1.net/s/ve?ei=k317026&si=h2&cfc=3html http://link.ixs1.net/s/ve?ei=k317026&si=h2&cfc=3html  Children’s Bookshelf (Publishers Weekly) http://www.publishersweekly.com/enewsletter/CA6621837/2788.html http://www.publishersweekly.com/enewsletter/CA6621837/2788.html

16. Blogs  Read Roger (Horn Book) http://www.hbook.com/blog/ http://www.hbook.com/blog/  Fuse #8 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1790000379.html http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1790000379.html  7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast http://www.blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/ http://www.blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/  Big A little a http://kidslitinformation.blogspot.com/ http://kidslitinformation.blogspot.com/

17. More questions? (General Q&A)

18. Where to go from here

19. Thanks Please keep in touch!