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Children's Literature Festival: 1976

Children's Literature Festival 1976


Children's Literature Festival 1976


April 9-10, 1976


8th Annual Children's Literature Festival

Central Missouri State University
Warrensburg, Mo

Honors

Mary Lois Dunn
Jacqueline Jackson

Leonard Wibberley

Carol Beach York

Authors of Books for Boys and Girls

Ed Emberley

Illustrator of Books for Boys and Girls

For
Significant Contributions

To

Children's Literature

Friday, April 9, 1976
Education Building

9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon                       1:00-3:00 p.m.

MEET THE AUTHORS

Mary Lois Dunn                         Ed Emberley
Jacqueline Jackson          Carol Beach York
Mary Calhoun                        Peter Z. Cohen
Harold Keith                           Berniece Rabe
Gertrude Bell                            Robert C. Lee
Edith McCall                    Rhoda Wooldridge
Wilma Yeo

(Alberta Wilson Constant and Leonard Wibberley will be present only on Saturday)

Dinner
Hawthorn Room
University Union
7:00 p.m.

Speaker.........................................................Jacqueline Jackson
Turn Not Pale, Beloved Snail!

Saturday
April 10, 1976
Education Building

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Autograph Reception                         Second Floor Corridor
Ed Emberley                                             Exhibit  Room 204B
Punch and Judy Show (10:30 a.m.)                        Room 210
Storytelling Demonstration (10:00 a.m.)                  Room 203
Mary Calhoun                                                         
One-Act Play (9:30 a.m.)                      Auditorium, Room 100
Weston Woods Films                                                Room 206

AWARDS LUNCHEON
Hawthorn Room

University Union
11:30 a.m.

Invocation.......................................................Dr. Roy Jorgensen

Welcome............................................................... Dr. Lee Barrows

Introduction of Guests.............................................. Philip Sadler

Musical Selections ..................University High School Students
from the 1976 production of HELLO DOLLY!
with Cheryl Wyss, Jeff Barrows, Ellen Bachus,
Steve Pattison. Norman Coltharp, and Mary Scherer

Presentation of Certificates.................... Dr.Warren C. Lovinger

Mary Lois Dunn
Jacqueline Jackson
Carol Beach York
Ed Emberley
Leonard Wibberley

Guest Speaker.........................................Mr. Leonard Wibberley

Festival Committee Members

Patricia Barrows Minnis, Supervisor, First Grade, Laboratory School
Ann Savage, Language Arts Supervisor, Laboratory School

Dr. 
Shela Moss, Assistant Professor of Education

Margaret Denman, Librarian, Assistant Professor

Dr. Bette Cook, Head, Department of Library Science and Instructional Technology

Philip Sadler,Assistant Professor, Children's Literature, Director of the Children's Literature Festival

Ophelia Gilbert, Librarian, Laboratory Schools, Coordinator of Children's Literature Festival