Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor delivers the 2018 CEHD Book Week lecture on Thursday, October 25, 2018. Read about the event here. Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning author of Africa-based science fiction and fantasy. Born in the United States to two Nigerian immigrant parents, she is known for weaving African culture into evocative settings, memorable characters, and wonder-filled plots.…
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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…
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…
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…
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