IRA 2012 Recap
I’ve just come home from my first International Reading Association convention, an annual event that draws teachers, librarians, and other bookish types to discuss literacy and teaching methods. It was a wondrous time!
Uma Krishnaswami, Kimberley Griffiths Little, Carolee Dean, Kersten Hamilton, Carolyn Meyer, Esther Hershenhorn
Lisa Schroeder, Caroline Starr Rose, April Halprin Wayland
On Sunday I was a part of an institute — an intensive session that lasted from 9-5. The title of our panel was Rekindling the Reading Fire – Using the Story Strategies of Professional Authors to Inspire a Love of Reading and Writing, headed up by Carolee Dean. The session included panels on magical realism; plot, setting and story; verse novels; and historical fiction.
I also had the opportunity to meet fellow Project Mayhem author, Hilary Wagner, and my dear, dear author friend, Sheila O’Connor.
It was lovely to meet Random House Children’s Books tireless sales and marketing team and a number of literature-loving educators as well as dozens of other authors I’d up to this point only known on-line or through their books.
My only regret is not having more pictures to share!
So happy for you, Caroline. Sounds like a wonderful, wonderful time.
I am all kinds of jealous! :)
Beth, thank you! It was a great introduction to it all.
Shannon, have you ever been? I hadn’t before. So strange to not be teaching and to be on the other side of things. Lovely time.
sounds amazing. I hope to get there one day!
Yay! \0/