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ALA Events - Authors from Macmillan Children's Publishing Group

July 3, 2009 Check Out Some of Your Favorite 
Macmillan Children's Publishing Group Authors at ALA: 

Saturday July 11th 
Anita Silvey Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book 
Signing in Booth 1715 10:00-11:00AM

Uri Shulevitz How I Learned Geography 
Signing in booth 1811 10:00-11:30AM 

Margery Cuyler The Little Dump Truck 
Signing in Booth 1816 11:00AM-12:00PM 

Matthew Cordell Mighty Casey
Signing in Booth 1813 11:00AM-12:00PM 

William Low Machines Go to Work
Signing in Booth 1816 2:00-3:00PM

Peter McCarty Jeremy Draws a Monster
Signing in Booth 1816 3:00-4:00PM

Sunday July 12th
Margarita Engle The Surrender Tree
YA Author Coffee Klatch 8:30-10:00AM
Signing in Booth 1816 11:00AM-12:00PM
Accepting the Pura Belpré Award 1:30 PM
Accepting the Newbery Honor 7:00pm PM

Julie Halpern Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
YA author Coffee Klatch 8:30-10:00AM
Signing in Booth 1813 11:00-12:00AM

Andrew Smith In the Path of Falling Objects
YA Author Coffee Klatch 8:30-10:00AM
Signing in Booth 1813 1:00-2:00PM

Kristina Springer The Espressologist
YA Author Coffee Klatch 8:30-10:00AM
Signing in Booth 1811 10:30-11:30AM

Laura Vaccaro Seeger One Boy
Signing in Booth 1715 10:00AM-11:00AM

Phillip Hoose Claudette Colvin
Inspiring Young Citizens: The Library as Forum for Engagement 10:30AM-12:00PM
Signing in Booth 1811 2:00-3:00PM

April Pulley Sayre Honk, Honk, Goose!
Nonfiction Book Blast: Booktalks for Reluctant Readers 10:30AM-12:00PM
Signing in Booth 1816 Sunday 2:00-3:00PM

Carla Killough McClafferty In Defiance of Hitler
Nonfiction Book Blast: Booktalks for Reluctant Readers 10:30AM-12:00PM
Signing in Booth 1811 12:30-1:30PM

Yuyi Morales Just in Case
Signing in Booth 1715 11:00AM-12:00PM
Accepting Pura Belpré Illustrator Award and Author Honor 1:30PM

Uri Shulevitz How I Learned Geography
Accepting Caldecott Honor 7:00 PM

Monday July 13th
Margarita Engle The Surrender Tree
Signing in Booth 1816 9:00PM-10:30PM

Uri Shulevitz How I Learned Geography
Signing in Booth 1811 9:00-10:30AM

Laura Vaccaro Seeger One Boy
Accepting Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor 10:30AM

Hope Anita Smith Keeping the Night Watch
Signing in Booth 1816 11:00AM-12:00PM
Poetry Blast participant 5:30-7:30PM

Sean Qualls Before John Was a Jazz Giant
Signing in Booth 1816 with Carole Boston Weatherford 1:00-2:00PM

Brenda A. Ferber Jemma Hartman, Camper Extraordinaire
Signing in Booth 1811 1:00-2:00PM

Tuesday July 14th
Sean Qualls Before John Was a Jazz Giant
Accepting Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor 7:30AM

Hope Anita Smith Keeping the Night Watch *****!!!!!!***** (emphasis added by Diane)
Accepting Coretta Scott King Author Honor 7:30AM

From their newsletter: Visit our gallery in booth 1815 and record a short booktalk about your favorite Macmillan Children's Publishing Group title. Five participants will be randomly selected to receive a piece of original art from Matthew Cordell, Danica Novgorodoff, Peter McCarty, Uri Schulevitz, or Laura Vaccaro Seeger! Bring a copy of this e-news letter and also be entered to win Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time Quintet box set.

Now here's my brilliant idea (if I do say so myself). How about one of you readers taking all these author events for ALA and creating a Google Calendar to share with all of us? You could put the authors, their booths, events, etc. in and when you share the calendar, we can simply click the "Add to my calendar" button so we don't have to retype all these events. We could build a gigantic calendar of author events that is easier to read than all these lists we receive via email. We can also use the Google calendar alert systems to text our cell phones or pda's so we don't miss the events we really care about just because we were too busy to glance at our printed schedules. Any takers?