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Hi Great Brain, If you've had a school visit with Nic Bishop would you reply to me off list? Thanks, Barb Barb Langridge Children's Services Howard County Central Library 10375 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia, MD 21045 410 313-7880 barb.langridge@hclibrary.org ------------------------- Original Message: From: Judy Freeman <BKWSSF@AOL.COM> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Cc: Date: Thursday, June 3 2010 12:42 AM Subject: BER Summer Children's Literature Conf. in Chicago & Minneapolis, July, 2010 Hi Folks-- If you're looking for some professional development fun this summer, I wanted to let you know about the upcoming BER (Bureau of Education & Research; www.BER.org) two-day Children's Literature Conference that I'll be doing with two colleagues in Chicago (July 17-18) and Minneapolis (July 19-20) next month. To register, first look up the brochure at < http://www.ber.org/seminars/seminar_schedule.cfm?location=CHN&group=E> for Chicago, and < http://www.ber.org/seminars/seminar_schedule.cfm?location=MIN&group=E> for Minneapolis. (To navigate your way there, go to www.BER.org, click on SEMINARS, then click on K-6, then IL or MN on the map, then K-6, them CHICAGO NORTH or MINNEAPOLIS. Whew. You can also call BER at: 1-800-735-3503. My very wonderful cohorts are Anita Silvey, former editor of Horn Book Magazine, publisher at Houghton Mifflin, and author of Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book (Roaring Brook, 2009); and Barbara Swanson Sanders, children's literature consultant, teacher, and former bookstore owner. We've been calling ourselves the Three Amazons, and this is the third summer we'll be traveling together. Can't wait! This is a busman's holiday for me, hanging out with these amazing women, and laughing myself silly for 4 crazy days. Each of us will be presenting a wide variety of sessions on every aspect of children's literature. Over the two days, we'll each be doing 7 individual workshops. (Gasp.) Our emphasis will be on unforgettable books no teacher or librarian can live without, plus a wealth of practical strategies and innovative ideas that you can use immediately in your K-6 classroom or library. Your dilemma will be picking which sessions you most want to attend. Today I got a copy, hot off the press, of the newly-revised, just published Resource Handbook you get when you attend the conference. It's over 500 pages! Pretty darn spiffy, jampacked with lesson plans, activities, worksheets, ideas, and booklists for each of the 21 sessions offered, even those you don't get to attend. Our goal is to help you strengthen your own children's literature program with loads of new books and lots of innovative ways you can use them with your students. I'll be bringing as many books as the airlines will let me carry, samples of students' work, props, puppets, stories, my little Backpacker guitar, and then some for our sizzling summer show-and-tell bookfest. What I particularly love is getting to do individual workshops on Storytelling, Creative Drama and Reader's Theater, and even a Hi Ho Librario session where we sing silly book-related songs. (What I don't love is that I'm so busy giving my own workshops, I don't get to sneak into Anita and Barbara's rooms to see what they're doing. Drat!) If you need a spa sabbatical and can't afford Canyon Ranch, it makes for a great little vacation. I love going to Chicago and Minneapolis because they're such total children's lit. cities, and they're both beautiful in the summer. If you know any children's book-obsessed people you think would like to know about our conference, could you forward this e-mail to them or put it on your blog or local listserv or on Facebook or Tweet or something? We get nervous that we won't get enough enrollment and it'll get canceled (though BER told me today it's running! Hooray!), or people won't know it's happening and then they'll weep because they didn't get to come hang out with us. I hope I'll see some of you there. If you come, please come up & introduce yourself! We'll have a party! Judy Judy Freeman Children's Literature Consultant Reviewer for www.READKIDDOREAD.com Author of Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3 (Libraries Unlimited, 2006; www.LU.com) and Once Upon a Time: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater with Children in Grades K-6 (2007) and the all-new The WINNERS! Handbook (2010) 65 North Sixth Avenue Highland Park, NJ 08904 732-572-5634 / BKWSSF@aol.com www.JudyReadsBooks.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. 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