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Say Yes! with Dan Yaccarino
by Melanie Hope Greenberg
Artist, author, and TV animation creator and producer, Dan Yaccarino, spoke to a full house at April’s Professional Series. He cheerfully shared how continuously polishing his skills and keeping a sketch book combined with serendipity and a willingness to say “yes” to new challenges, provided stepping stones along his successful career path.
Yaccarino [...]
Playing God: World-Building with Connie Hsu
by Emily Goodman
Connie Hsu, assistant editor at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, discussed the perils and responsibilities of world-building at the March 16 professional lecture, entitled “How You Get to Play God and Learn to Use Your Powers Responsibly.”
The lecture was devised, Hsu said, because Little, Brown receives many fantasy manuscripts and the [...]
Children’s Literary Cafe – August Event
The Children’s Literary Cafe is pleased to announce the following event on Saturday, August 7th at 2:00 p.m.
Brave New World: Digital Books for Kids
Join a distinguished panel of children’s book publishers who are breaking new ground and finding ways to use eBook technology in a children’s literary format. The panel will include Stephen Roxburgh of namelos as well as other publishers working in the field.
Location: The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42 Street, New York, NY, 10018
Children’s Literary Cafe – July Event
The Children’s Literary Cafe is pleased to announce the following event on Saturday, July 10th at 2:00 p.m.
Everything you ever wanted to know about “The Little Prince”: Remembering Saint-Exupery
Incredulously, Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), French heroic, historic, classic literary figure, can be considered a New York author. Howard Scherry, author of Antoine de Saint-Exupery and ‘The Little Prince:’ You Can Go Home Again – In Your Memory will guide the audience on a virtual walking tour of outstanding Manhattan addresses linked to the legendary author-aviator’s wartime exile, 1941-1943.
Location: The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42 Street, New York, NY, 10018
Children’s Literary Cafe – June Event
The Children’s Literary Cafe is pleased to announce the following event on Saturday, June 5th at 2:00 p.m.
The Picture Book Made New: Margaret Wise Brown, Her Illustrators, and Her World.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Goodnight Moon author Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952), biographer Leonard Marcus offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and times of America’s poet laureate of the nursery. Find out how Brown re-imagined the picture book in the spirit of modern progressive education and modern art and, in league with her great editor Ursula Nordstrom, created “good books for bad children” that have lasted for generations.
Location: The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42 Street, New York, NY, 10018
Passwords to Plot: The Secret of Nancy Drew Mysteries
by Emily Goodman
Author Chris Eboch discussed tools for fast-paced plotting in an information-packed talk called “What I Learned from Nancy Drew,” at the SCBWI-Metro New York Professional Series lecture on February 2, 2010.
Eboch, author of the Haunted series of middle grade ghost stories and other books, said the most important features of a plot [...]