4th Annual Children’s Literature Conference and Horace Mann Upstanders Award

Event Date:
Sunday, June 12th 2011
9:00 am to 12:30 pm
Event Location:
Open Charter Elementary
5540 W. 77th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Event Details:

Pre-registration is free, $10 registration at the door. Co-sponsored by the Education Department and the Office of Student Advocacy and Services.

Join us for a half-day conference and book signing including some of the best recent children’s fiction by authors who celebrate inclusion, diversity, and social justice, including our 2011 Horace Mann Upstanders Award recipient Nikki Grimes for her book Almost Zero: A Dyamonde Daniel Book (Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, Putnam.)

 

Contact Information:

(Presenters include author and publisher Icy Smith, author and illustrator Xavier Garza, and 2011 Award Winner Nikki Grimes.) Co-sponsored by the Education Department and the Office of Student Advocacy and Services. For more information and registration, visit upstandersaward.org.