Children's/Young Adult Book Committee
| Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:26PM | | | | November, 2009 Trip to New Orleans | Posted By: Children’s/YA Books Authors Committee
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| | Writers are used to doing presentations or writer’s workshops at various schools. Usually it’s a one-to-one experience. Let me tell you, as one of our three-year-old nieces says: more is better!
In November, 2009, four authors—Robie Harris, Elizabeth Levy, Fatima Shaik and Susan Kuklin—went to The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School of Science and Technology in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, to do a series of writer’s workshop with some of the students. The plan was: make a book!
This trip was part of a program set up by Fatima and PEN’s Children/Young Adult Committee after Hurricane Katrina. The committee adopted the school, sent them a children’s library, and arranged author’s visits... | | | | | | | |
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