SLJ Day of Dialog | Cambridge, MA
Join School Library Journal for the most anticipated librarian-only gathering of the year and be informed, inspired, and entertained by the best authors, editors, and publishers in the industry. Spend the day discussing the latest trends and get the inside scoop on the hottest books in the world of children's and young adult literature.
This event includes a full day of panels and speaker presentations by celebrated authors as well as breakfast and lunch. Attendees enjoy access to free ARCs and an opportunity to network with colleagues from around the country in an intimate library-centric setting. Get a first look at exciting titles due out this fall and walk away with bags filled with books and inspiring ideas for your libraries and classrooms.
Here's what librarians had to say about Day of Dialog 2017
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Program
8:45 AM | Registration
9:30 AM | Opening Keynote
Ali Benjamin, The Next Great Paulie Fink (Little, Brown, 2019)
10:00 AM | Everything I Know I Learned from a Picture Book
Harry Bliss, Good Rosie! (Candlewick)
Anika Aldamuy Denise, Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré (HarperCollins)
Gloria Respress-Churchwell, Follow Chester: A College Football Team Fights Racism and Makes History (Charlesbridge)
Jennifer Sattler, Bully (Sleeping Bear)
10:50 AM | Publisher Pitch I
11:10 AM | Stellar Teen Reads
S. E. Grove, The Waning Age (Penguin)
Gail Jarrow, Spooked: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America (Boyds Mills Press)
Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (HarperCollins)
Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After (Little, Brown)
12:00 PM | Lunch
1:30 PM | Luncheon Speaker
Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home (Penguin, 2019)
2:00 PM | Publisher Pitch II
2:20 PM | Fresh Perspectives and New Narratives in Nonfiction
Don Brown, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Vita Murrow, Power to the Princess (Quarto)
Ray Anthony Shepard, Now or Never! Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery (Boyds Mills Press)
Melissa Stewart, Seashells: More Than a Home (Charlesbridge)
3:10 PM | Break
3:30 PM | Publisher Pitch III
4:00 PM | Closing Keynote
Eric Gansworth, Give Me Some Truth (Scholastic, 2018)
4:30 PM | Book Signing
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Ali Benjamin is a New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award Finalist for The Thing About Jellyfish, and the cowriter for HIV-positive teen Paige Rawl's coming-of-age memoir Positive as well as Tim Howard's national bestseller The Keeper. She lives near Williamstown, Massachusetts. |
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Padma Venkatraman has a new middle grade coming out in Spring '19 called The Bridge Home. It's Oliver Twist meets Slumdog Millionaire in this tale of homeless children trying to make a life for themselves in Chennai, India. With lyrical, beautiful, and page-turning writing, this is an #OwnVoices story that will serve as a window and mirror for young readers. Padma is also the author of A Time to Dance (IBBY selection, ALA Notable, CCBC Choice, Notable Books for a Global Society winner, and South Asia Book Award Honor Book), Island's End (ALA Best Book of the Year, ALA/Amelia Bloomer List selection, and CCBC Best Book), and Climbing the Stairs (Julia Ward Howe Award, Bank Street Best Book, YALSA BBYA selection, Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, and CCBC Choice). Padma Venkatraman was born in Chennai, India, and became an American citizen after attaining a Ph.D. in oceanography from The College of William and Mary. |
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Eric Gansworth (Sˑha-weñ na-saeˀ) is Lowery Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY and was recently NEH Distinguished Visiting Professor at Colgate University. An enrolled Onondaga, he was born and raised at the Tuscarora Indian Nation, just outside Niagara Falls, NY. His debut novel for young readers, If I Ever Get Out of Here, was a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick and an American Indian Library Association Young Adult Honor selection, and he is the author of numerous acclaimed books for adults. Please visit his website at ericgansworth.com. |
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Anika Aldamuy Denise first heard the stories of Pura Belpré from her titi Rose, who, like Pura's family, enjoyed sharing the treasured folklore of Puerto Rico. Today, Anika is the celebrated author of several picture books including Starring Carmen!, Lights, Camera, CARMEN!, and Monster Trucks. She lives with her husband and three daughters in Rhode Island. Visit her online at anikadenise.com. |
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Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker. He has illustrated many picture books, including the #1 New York Times bestselling series by Doreen Cronin that began with Diary of a Worm, and he has both written and illustrated several picture books, including Grace for Gus and Luke on the Loose. Harry Bliss lives in New Hampshire. |
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Don Brown is the award winning creator of many picture-book biographies and graphic novels including Sibert Honor winner, Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. He has been widely praised for his resonant storytelling and delicate watercolor paintings that evoke the excitement, pain, and joy of lives lived with passion. He lives in New York with his family. Visit him at booksbybrown.com and on Instagram @donsart. |
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Tiffeni Fontno, MEd, MLIS, is a Head Librarian of the Educational Resource Center at Boston College. She studied elementary education, library science, literacy, English Language Learning, and educational technology. Her areas of interest include diverse children's literature, curriculum, and educational technology. |
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Elissa Gershowitz is executive editor of The Horn Book, Inc. She holds an MA from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College and a BA from Oberlin College. |
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S.E. Grove is a historian and world traveler. She spends most of her time reading about the early modern Spanish empire, writing about invented empires, and residing in Boston. Follow S. E. Grove on Twitter @segrovebooks or at segrovebooks.com. |
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Gail Jarrow is the author of nonfiction books and novels young readers. Her nonfiction books have earned the YALSA Award Nomination for Excellence in Nonfiction, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book, Outstanding Science Trade Book, a NSTA Best STEM book, the Jefferson Cup Award, the Eureka! Gold Award, an Orbis Pictus Recommendation, as well as Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal Best Books and VOYA Honor Book distinctions. |
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Mackenzi Lee is the New York Times bestselling author of This Monstrous Thing and The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, as well as the upcoming The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy. She earned a BA in history and an MFA from Simmons College in writing for children and young adults. You can find her online at mackenzilee.com. |
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Vita Murrow is a writer, artist, and mom. Born in central India, she grew up in Minneapolis, MN. An adoptee and the daughter of a gay single parent, her family constellation made her acutely aware of the need for diverse and inclusive media for kids. Vita previously directed a literacy centered school partnership program in Boston, was an educator in Seattle and New York City, and has been an American Sign Language interpreter. She earned an M.S.Ed in Education and Teaching Literacy from the Bank Street College of Education. Her children's book debut, The Whale, was written together with her husband, artist Ethan Murrow, and nominated for a CILIP Greenway Medal. They have two children and live in Boston. |
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Emily X.R. Pan is the New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Color of After, named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 12 books of the season. Emily currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, but was originally born in the Midwestern United States to immigrant parents from Taiwan. She received her MFA in fiction from NYU, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. She was the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine, a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at Djerassi, and is co-creator of Foreshadow: A Serial YA Anthology. Visit Emily online at exrpan.com, and find her on Twitter and Instagram: @exrpan. |
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Gloria Respress-Churchwell has a passion for sharing nonfictional stories, especially those about unsung heroes. Having received a M.A. and M.F.A. from Simmons College in Children's Literature and Writing for Children as a Lee & Low Books Scholar, Respress-Churchwell's picture book Follow Chester! (Charlesbridge Publishing) debuts in 2019 about the true story of how Dr. Chester Pierce became the first African American to play college football south of the Mason-Dixon line. Respress-Churchwell has self-published Robert Churchwell: Writing News, Making History – A Savannah Green Story (Jabberwocky Books 2014); a historical fiction book based on the life of Robert Churchwell known as the Jackie Robinson of journalism. Respress-Churchwell produced and directed a documentary about his life that won the Tennessee Tribune award at the Nashville Film Festival. The book and documentary are part of Churchwell's permanent (displayed) collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Music specifically produced for her books accompany each of Respress-Churchwell stories to further extend the educational experience to the young reader. She believes the message of the story carries through the music and especially benefits students who learn best from hearing. Respress-Churchwell states, "during my school visits, seeing the smiles and hearing the children sing actual facts from the story is heartwarming. The connection of music is contagious and fun." Respress-Churchwell lives in the New England area with her husband and children. |
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Julie Roach manages youth services at the Cambridge Public Library in Massachusetts. She also teaches children's literature at Simmons College's Graduate School of Library and Information Science and at Lesley University. She reviews children's literature regularly for The Horn Book and School Library Journal. |
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Jennifer Sattler is the award-winning author and illustrator of numerous children's books, including the new board books Bundle Up, Dirty Birdies, and Jungle Gym, as well as the picture book Bully and the Pig Kahuna and the "Chick 'n' Pug" series. She lives in upstate New York, where she delights in embarrassing her children and having meaningful conversations with her dog, Henry. Learn more about her at jennifersattlerbooks.com. |
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Ray Anthony Shepard is a grandson of a slave, a former teacher, and retired editor-in-chief of a major education publishing company. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Education and the Harvard Graduate School Education where he received a Martin Luther King Jr. Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Now or Never is his first work of creative nonfiction. |
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Melissa Stewart is the award-winning author of more than 150 science books for children. She has always been fascinated by the natural world and is passionate about sharing its beauty and wonder with readers of all ages. After earning a bachelor's degree in biology from Union College in Schenectady, NY, and a master's degree in science journalism from New York University, Melissa worked as a children's book editor for nine years before becoming a fulltime writer in 2000. She has written everything from board books for preschoolers to magazine articles for adults. When Melissa isn't writing or exploring the natural world, she spends time speaking at schools, libraries, nature centers, and educator conferences. She serves on the Board of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and the Keene State College Children's Literature Festival. |
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