Books and Beverages, our first lit pub crawl, happened on Thursday, June 2, 2022.

This event was free and open to all fans of children's literature.

We met at Gus & Andy's for drinks and introductions at 5:30 pm, then headed next door to shop for books, gifts, and more at Once Upon a Time (6:00-7:30 pm). We explored the maze of books and LPs at Lost Books (7:30-8:30 pm) then finished up the evening at Basin 141 (8:30 pm onwards, 21+). 

Those without a Facebook account RSVPed on WildApricot.

2020 Virtual Fall Gala

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Spring Workshops

“Sharing Hard Truths in Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults"
2018 Spring Workshop

Saturday, May 19, 2018
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 
Glendale Public Library

Photos from the day of the event can be found HERE. 

Keynote Speaker: Ann Bausum

Although "fake news," "alternative facts," bans on words and attacks on knowledge are not new in the history of our country, this is the climate in which writers are writing and librarians and teachers are sharing works of nonfiction for young readers. We are living in hard times for justice, understanding, and truth. In this workshop, we explored the state and look of nonfiction for children and young adults in 2018, where young readers get their nonfiction, and whose stories are being told and have yet to be told.

Ann Bausum writes about history for young people. Her books help upper elementary, middle school, and high school students discover the drama and significance of stories from history that may barely be presented in their textbooks. Her goal is to "make history relevant, engaging, alive, and irresistible." In a recent Horn Book article, Ann writes, "We observe that forgotten history tends to be repeated. Nothing good comes from distorted history, either, which is why we must hold fast to the truth, even when it’s painful, and do our best to set down stories straight." For more information about Ann, please visit her website: www.annbausum.com

Following Ann's Keynote Speech, workshop attendees rotated through four "deep-dive" sessions that focused on writing, reading, and teaching hard truths with and for children and young adults, as well as the look and content of contemporary nonfiction. 

A Nonfiction Petting Zoo was on display throughout the workshop.

Sessions were facilitated by
Michelle Markel, Author
Annette Goldsmith, Lecturer, University of Washington Information School
Ethan Bradbury, History Teacher and Highly Gifted Magnet Coordinator at North Hollywood High School
Madeline Bryant, Principal Librarian, Youth Services Department, Los Angeles Public Library

“Early Literacy in the Digital Age”
2014 Spring Workshop

Saturday, May 3, 2014
Fullerton Public Library

Cen Campbell
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of LittleeLit.com

Harriet Ziefert
Children's Author and Publisher of Blue Apple Books

“Embracing Your Core: Libraries, Literature, and the New Common Core State Standards”
2013 Spring Workshop

Kristin Fontichiaro
Kristin is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. She teaches courses in contextual inquiry and user needs assessment, makerspace culture and tools, information literacy, and library and information science.

Roger Sutton
Editor of The Horn Book
Considered by many to be the leading expert of children's literature, Roger has been editor-in-chief of The Horn Book since 1996. He has led and advanced the magazine's "superb reputation for book reviewing while expanding its coverage of the cultural and social significance of children's and young adult literature."

“Serving Children With Autism: Literature, Libraries and Learning”
2012 Spring Workshop

Dr. Ricki Robinson
Dr. Robinson is the co-director of Descanso Medical Center for Development and Learning in La Canada, CA. He is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Senior Attending Physician at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. In private practice, she has specialized in children with developmental delays.

Barbara Klipper
Barbara is a librarian, author and trainer in the area of inclusive library programs. Her book, Programming for Children and Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder, is used by librarians all over the country to develop library programs for children with special needs. 

“Read the Movie? Using Movies Based on Books to Promote Literacy”
2011 Spring Workshop

Wendelin Van Draanen, Author of Flipped
Carl Gottleib, Screenwriter 
Mary Menzel, Director of California Center for the Book (Moderator)

“Old Passions - New Technologies: Children’s and Young Adult Literature in a Web 2.0 World”
2010 Spring Workshop

Tracy Grand 
Elizabeth Khuri Chandler
Gregory Pincus
Eva Mitnick

“I Can Read It by Myself...But Do I Want to? Inspiring Emergent Readers”
2009 Spring Workshop

Megan Lambert
Megan is a Senior Lecturer in Children's Literature at Simmons College. She is the author of Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking About What They See which introduces the Whole Books Approach to storytime that she developed in association with the Eric Carle Picture Book Museum in Boston, MA.

PHOTOS

“Biography for Children and Young Adults"
2008 Spring Workshop

Diane Stanley
Elizabeth Partridge
Susan Goldman Rubin 
PHOTOS

“Let's Tell Stories: A Day of Storytelling for Librarians, Teachers, and Families”
2007 Spring Workshop

Donald Davis
Gay Ducey
Karen Golden
Karen Rae Kraut
Leslie Perry 
Padraic Keohane

“Inspiring the Next Generation of Teen Readers”
2006 Spring Workshop

Michele Gorman  
Michele Gorman is the Deputy Director for Lifelong Learning, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. She is responsible for strategic programming and services for Children's Services, Teen Services, Adult Services, and Outreach. She was also the Library's Teen Services Coordinator. She is a freelance writer and renowned national speaker. Her publications include: Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: How to Do It Manual; Getting Graphic! Comics for Kids; and Getting Graphic: Using Graphic Novels to Promote Literacy with Preteens and Teens. 

Tricia Suellentrop
Tricia is the Deputy County Librarian for the Johnson County Library in Kansas. Formerly a Teen Services Librarian, she co-authored the book, Connecting Young Adults and Libraries: How to Do It Manual with Michele Gorman.

PHOTOS

“Connecting Boys With Books”
2005 Spring Workshop

Michael Sullivan, author of Connecting Boys With Books: What Libraries Can Do

PHOTOS  

“Radical Change: Creative Non-Fiction for Youth”
2003 Spring Workshop

Eliza Dresang
Author of Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital Age (H.W. Wilson, 2000)

Nancy Smiler Levinson
Prolific author of nonfiction and fiction books for children including nonfiction for beginning readers

Kathleen Krull
Prolific author of award-winning biographies for children

"The Business of Books: The Marketing and Reviewing of Books for Children and Teens"

2002 Spring Workshop
Leonard Marcus  
Susan Patron
Dr. Marilyn Robertson

"Visual Literacy: Looking at Children's Book Illustration"

2001 Spring Workshop

Michael Cart
Marla Frazee
Joe Cepeda
Linda Duke

"Lets Talk About Books: How to Form and Lead Children's and Young Adult Book Discussion Groups"

2000 Spring Workshop

Ginny Moore Kruse of the Cooperative Children's Book Center in Madison, Wisconsin

"Celebrating Poetry: The Gifts of Myra Cohn Livingston"
199 Spring Workshop
X.J. Kennedy
Debra Chandra
Monica Gunning
Kristine O'Connell George
Ann Paul

"Looking at Children's Books Through the Lens of Gender"

1998 Spring Workshop

Kathleen Odean

"Bibliorama! The Best 75 YA Books So Far"

1997 Spring Workshop

Patty Campbell

"The Creative Spirit: Linking Children, Literature, and Learning" 

1996 Spring Workshop

Dr. Sally Thomas
Pat Kunkel
Dr. Virginia Walter (LAPL)
Anne Connor (LAPL)

“Visual Literacy:  Looking at Children’s Book Illustration”

1995 Spring Workshop

Joanna Cotler
Delores Johnson
Robin Rector-Krupp
Deborah Nourse Lattimore
Grace Ruth, Chair of the 1995 Caldecott Committee on Evaluation of Picture Books

"What's on Everybody's Mind: Personal and Professional Survival"

1994 Spring Workshop

Bessie Egan
Dr. Rick Salway
Sue Curzon

“Share the Enthusiasm: Motivating Others to Read” 

1993 Spring Workshop

Walter Mayes, Marketing Department of Bantam Coubleday Dell

“Marketing the Library:  Its Services and Collections”

1992 Spring Workshop

Jack Buchanan, Director, Santa Maria Public Library
with panelists: Jody Fickes, Adventures for Kids Bookstore and Ellen Nathan Elementary School Librarian

“Horn Book Symposium” 

1991 Spring Workshop

Anita Silvey, The Challenges of Literary Criticism

“Non-Fiction for a New Age”

1990 Spring Workshop

featuring James Cross Giblin, Beverly Korbin, and Betty Carter—writing & publishing, selection & evaluation, techniques for using non-fiction

1989 Spring Workshop

Charlotte Huck & 12 panelists

“The Challenge of Sharing Books"

1988 Spring Workshop

featuring Zilpha Keatley Snyder 
Helping communities accept the diversity in literature for young people

“Implementing the California Reading Initiative”

1987 Spring Workshop

“The Pleasure of Spoken Language as an Introduction to Literature” 

1986 Spring Workshop

featuring
Augusta Baker, “Bringing Children and Books Together through Storytelling; Toddler Storyhour

“Braving a New Frontier:  Cable TV & Library Services to Children”
1985 Spring Workshop

"Inspiring an Early Love of Books to Combat the Rising Tide of Illiteracy and Mediocrity"
1984 Spring Workshop

featuring 
Jim Trelease

"Children's Films and Literature"
1983 Spring Workshop

featuring Shana Herzog, Mike Garafalo, Elaine Adder, Eileen Tokar, Kay Simonette, and Cathy Saldin

"Celebrating the Work of Hans Christian Andersen"
1982 Spring Workshop

"Children as Mirrors: What Children Learn from Literature"
1981 Spring Workshop

featuring Joanne Lynn, Carolyn Murry, and Philip Dreyer

"Welcome to Our Shores: How Can We Provide a Cultural Exchange with Children and Young People from Southeast Asia?"
1980 Spring Workshop

 “Book Production in the International Year of the Child”

1979 Spring Workshop

 “Storytelling, Film, Songs, and Games for 9-13 Year Olds; New Directions in Book Binding"
1978 Spring Workshop

Maria Gripe

Arbuthnot Lecture
1976 Spring Workshop

featuring Jean Fritz
(co-sponsored with 13 other local institutions)

“Are Children’s Books an Endangered Species?”
1975 Spring Workshop

Six panelists at El Camino College

“Springboards to Reading:  A Workshop to Explore Creative Approaches to Literature with Child Involvement as the Key”
1974 Spring Workshop

Choose two workshops out of four: Creative Writing, Child Participation in Storytelling, Puppetry, Literature through Media, at Glendale High School

1976 Spring Workshop
“Take Wing:  Beyond the Language Barrier”
“Trends in Children’s Literature:  An International Point of View,” Dr.Richard Bamberger;
“Children’s Films with an International Flavor” 
“The Pleasures of Pantomime:  A Worldwide Language,” Jack Albee, Mime

1972 Spring Workshop
“Creative Arts and Children’s Literature” Music, Art, Poetry, Creative dramatics, Weston Woods, cosponsored by Cal State Fullerton

1971 Puppetry Workshop
with Betsy Brown 

1970 Storytelling Workshop

Guests:  Doris Gates & Frances Clarke Sayers film; Demonstrations, Jeanette Fijita (Preschool), Binnie Tate Wilkin (“Ethnic”), Van Windham (Folktale), jointly sponsored by SCCLCYP & UCLA Extension

1969 “A Program to Surprise & Delight Authors interested in Children and Their Literature,” & International Children’s Book Day, Mildred Batchelder Award, & Hans Christian Anderson Award
Anne Pelowski, guest speaker

1966 "Symposium on Storytelling"
featuring
Augusta Baker 
(Co-sponsored w/CLA’s Children’s & Young People’s Association)

1965 Screening of the film, The Lively Art of the Picture Book, Graphic Arts Festival, UCLA, Frances Clarke Sayers, 
“In Celebration of Picture Books”

1964 Screening of the film, Island of the Blue Dolphins