American Library
Association (ALA) conferences are like Christmas (or Hanukkah) and birthdays
rolled into one. Christmas (or Hanukkah)
because everyone is celebrating something we all love: children’s
books! Not to mention great presents from
publishers: advance copies of their latest books, along with posters and pencils
and bits of chocolate. And birthdays, because when you do a signing, people fuss
over you, tell you how special you are, and buy your books, perhaps the best
present we can get! An added
bonus at ALA – the upper body strength one acquires toting all those freebies
around the hall for hours and miles.
Here are a few pictures
of INK authors at ALA in Anaheim, California last weekend.
Steve Sheinkin hard
at work, signing his latest book, Bomb:
The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon.
Roz Schanzer and
editor Kate Olesin channel Vanna White at National Geographics’s GEOPARDY
party.
My editor, Carolyn
Yoder, and I show off Write On, Mercy!
The Secret Life of Mercy Otis Warren.
HAPPY SUMMER READING TO YOU ALL!
HAPPY SUMMER READING TO YOU ALL!
7 comments:
You all look to be having fun at ALA. Enjoy.
What fun! Lookin' good, everyone!
The best part - lots of interest in what we're doing. So I'm passing on the message: "Keep it coming!"
Wonderful to see so many iNK writers at ALA. Way to go!!!
Thanks so much, Gretchen…love those Holiday House receptions!
Plenty of talk at ALA about the CC standards and the increased nonfiction reading requirement!
It was really fun to meet you there and to ride in your chariot, Gretchen. Thanks for this show and tell!
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