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Saturday, November 8, 2008 - Rochester Children's Book Festival

Posted in Personal Musings

     I have just got to share this fabulous day! Right after breakfast with guests and cleaning up my kitchen, RJ took me to Monroe Community College for the Rochester Children's Book Festival. There were 46 children and young adult authors there, signing their books, providing writing workshops for children, and talking about their work. I had the pleasure of hearing James Howe (the famed Bunnicula series author - the story of a vampire bunny that sucks the juice out of vegetables) talk about his books and his world of writing. I didn't know that he was from Webster, a suburb near Rochester. I met Linda Sue Park, from Brighton, who wrote A Single Shard, which won the John Newbery Medal for Children's Literature. I was so impressed. She is such a down-to-earth woman. Bruce Coville was there. I had heard him talk once before at the International Reading Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas. I had no idea that he was from Syracuse. Tamora Piece was there (also from Syracuse) and Will Hubbell from Rochester. I had no idea so many of my favorite authors were local New York writers.  I bought a couple of books for my nephews for Christmas. How cool to have them signed by the authors!
     It was a great afternoon shared with RJ. He even had a good time, which made this all the more enjoyable.
     The Big Read, a community literacy program coordinated by Writers & Books is presenting talks, book discussions, and other events based on The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick. I hope I'll have time to get in on some of the events.
     The Niagara-on-the-Lake Readers Group that met at the Inn a couple of weeks ago invited me to their meeting to discuss one of their reads. I'm really going to try to get up there. They are a fun group and very interesting. What a great way to into reading materials that you may not necessarily read.
     RJ is heading out again next week for a few days, so my sister is coming over for some one-on-one "sis" time. It will be.... A SLEEPOVER! It will be a good time.

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