Naomi C. Chase Lecture 2018: Meet Kevin Henkes
This event is free and open to the public. However, seats are limited and reservations are required. RSVP at https://chase2018.eventbrite.com.
Book Week 2017: An evening with Thanhha Lai
by Nick Kleese The trees held onto their leaves for one final week this year, all so that attendees’ journeys to the 2017 Book Week event with Thanhha Lai could be quintessentially autumn. In fact, Lai would go on to acknowledge this picturesque weather in her lecture. “It’s not cold enough,” she joked. The crowd…
BOOK WEEK: Meet Author Thanhha Lai
Award-winning author Thanhha Lai delivered the 2017 CEHD Book Week lecture on Tuesday , October 17, 2017. Read about the event here. Thanhha Lai’s debut novel Inside Out & Back Again won the 2011 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and a Newbery Honor. Her second novel, Listen, Slowly is a New York Times bestseller, Publisher’s…
BOOKLight: Meet Author & Illustrator Melissa Sweet
Melissa Sweet has illustrated over a hundred books, many of which have won a number of prestigious awards such as the Caldecott honor, Sibert, Orbis Pictus, and the New York Times award. Melissa just completed her first chapter book biography, Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White. She lives in Maine. “I’ve been making…
Naomi C. Chase Lecture 2017: Meet Author & Illustrator Melissa Sweet
Author and Illustrator Melissa Sweet delivered the 2017 Naomi C. Chase lecture on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Melissa has illustrated many award-winning books, including two Caldecott Honor books: A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams and The Right Word: Peter Mark Roget and His Thesaurus, both by Jen Bryant. She wrote and illustrated…
Children's Literature at UMN 