DATE: May 19, 2012 - May 20, 2012
CONTACT: Victoria Selvaggio, Regional Advisor
CHAPTER: Northern Ohio
LOCATION/TIME: Roots and Wings Ranch - 6589 Carsten Road, Medina, Ohio 44256 - 9:00am - 4:00pm
YOU WILL STUDY, DECIPHER, AND WRITE 5 PREDICTABLE STORY STRUCTURES!
Set aside one day to learn picture book structure based on children's book favorites:
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Today is Monday by Eric Carl
Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? by Bill Martin
Jump Frog Jump! by Robert Kalan
There Was a Librarian Who Chewed on a Word by Laurie Lazzaro Knowlton
Bring paper/pencil or laptop (laptop battery fully charged)
Event will be held outside in a pavilion if weather allows - dress accordingly
Bring a bag lunch - lemonade and ice tea and an afternoon snack will be provided.
Biography: Laurie Lazzaro Knowlton's first published work was a note passed to a boy in third grade. You would have thought this most embarrassing moment would have stopped her writing career. But instead, Laurie has gone on to write forty books and is the author/illustrator of two more.
Laurie has been published in the trade, educational, craft and Christian Market. "Why Cowboys Sleep with their Boots On" is Laurie's best-selling picture book. It won the Premier Print Award given by Eastman Kodak and has sold over 45,000 copies since publication.
Laurie wrote and illustrated "God Be In My Heart", 1999, and "Red, White, And Blue", 2002. The Huebner Museum of Children's Picture Book Art, housed in the Toledo Public Library, honored Laurie by purchasing and exhibiting a piece of art from "Red, White, And Blue". Martha Stewart's Radio Station highlighted "Red, White, And Blue". The Children's Book Council invited Laurie to write about Amercia's freedoms as related to her book "Red, White, And Blue", for their premier online magazine.
The Children's Book Committee of Bank Street College of Education selected "A Young Man's Dance", as among the best Children's Books of the year, 2007.
Laurie Lazzaro Knowlton is an international speaker, addressing students, educators, and writers throughout the United States and Mexico. More information can be on Laurie's website at 222.laurieknowlton.com
Space is limited to 20 participants for this event. Registrations will be processed on a first come basis. Registration begins on April 2, 2012 and ends on May 12, 2012. No refunds after April 20, 2012.
More information can be found on our website at www.nohscbwi.org
To register go to
http://www.regonline.com/Structurepicturebooks
Questions? Direct them to Vicki Selvaggio, Regional Advisor at
vselvaggio@windstream.net