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Annual children’s literature conference opens April 18

The 33rd annual children’s literature conference will be held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education April 18-20. Nearly 600 school library-media specialists, teachers and public librarians are expected to attend the event.
General session speakers include informational book author Aliki, author-illustrator Janell Cannon (winner of this year’s Georgia Picture Storybook Award for Verdi), author-illustrator Jerry Pinkney (John Henry, The Hired Hand), Elizabeth Levy (Georgia Book Award Winner for My Life as a Fifth Grade Comedian) and Barbara O’Connor (Me and Rupert Goody). The conference will feature several autograph sessions with authors and illustrators, as well as the presentation of the Georgia Book Awards for 2002 on April 19. The event will conclude on April 20 with the Storyteller’s Luncheon.
The Georgia Book Award program was founded in 1968 by the late Sheldon L. Root, a professor of language education in the University of Georgia College of Education. The goal of the program is to acquaint young children with the joys of reading for pleasure. Participating schools select from fictional books nominated by Georgia teachers and librarians. The program, which is one of the oldest and most successful of its kind, has become a model for reading programs across the country.

--Holly Preston

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