DATE: February 6, 2010
CONTACT: Jody Fickes Shapiro
LOCATION/TIME: E.P. Foster Library, Topping Room, 651 East Main Street, Ventura 93001. 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Come explore the varied picture book landscape, digging into its full range from classics to contemporary. We will examine what works and why through sharing and through exercises covering topics including setting the scene, inviting the art and manipulating the temperature of language. Bring 2 or 3 picture books that you especially admire -- classics or recent ones.
Instructor Marni McGee has been a longtime member of SCBWI. Of her fifteen published books, eleven are picture books. Her work-which includes history and poetry-has been widely published and translated into more than a dozen languages. And she is eagerly awaiting the publication of four more picture books in the next two years. Her most recent picture books include
Silly Goose (Little Tiger), Winston the Book Wolf (Bloomsbury), and
A Song in Bethlehem (Random House) with
BUMBLE, The Little Bear with Big Ideas coming in early 2010.
www.marnimcgee.com
$40 members, $50 non-members