From Dream to Page: Children's Books & the People Who Make Them 

From Dream to Page:

Children’s Books & the People Who Make Them

Program of Events

5^th Annual Workshop & Seminar

James C. Kirkpatrick Library

University of Central Missouri

Thursday, July 23, 2009

         8:30 – 9:30            Registration & Coffee                 Room 2440

          9:30 – 10:45           Laura Huliska-Beith: Both Points of View: Writing &

                                                Illustrating Children's Books.                    Room 2441                               

        11:00 – 12:15           Richard Jennings: Defining the personalities of primary fiction characters through

                                                     research                         Room 2441             

         12:00 – 1:00            Lunch with group                        Room 2305

          1:00 - 2:15             Jane Kurtz: How do you Write so Many Different Kinds of Things?

                                                      (and other mysteries of a working writer's life)  Room 2441

           2:30 - 3:15            Carolyn Mulford:  Interviewing for Fact and Fiction        Room 2441

           3:30 – 4:45            Dr. Dawna Lisa Buchanan & Naomi Williamson                     

                                                Travel through Time with Children's Books: Historical & Unique Children’s Books

           5:00-6:20               Swing schedule – 20 minute sessions

                                                Meet with author, illustrator or book maker

                                                Resource library open

           6:30   p.m.               Dinner & Book Signing (all)          Room 1264

          8:30 – 9:00              Coffee                                          Room 2440

            9:00 - 10:15           Panel  of Authors:

                                                Getting Published: The Ins & Outs of Marketing        Your Work   Room 2441

            10:45 – 11:45         What’s New in the World of Children’s Literature    

                             Joan Arth, Library Media Specialist, Liberty Public Schools     Room 2441             

           11:45 – 12:30          Short swings/Book signing        Room 2440

           12:30  – 1:30             Lunch with group                    Room 2305

                                                Concluding general remarks,  certificates and evaluations.

          1:30: - 2:00                All registered students required to meet with

                                                          Buchanan & Williamson

                                                * To receive undergraduate or graduate credit students MUST attend this session.