Friday Dessert Buffet with Portland Author Bart
King
$12
“Between
Hormones and Horseplay: Writing for 'Tweens and Early Teens”
What's the key to writing for the “tween/young
teen” audience? Though he doesn't presume to know the answer,
author Bart King is happy to share his thoughts on the matter.
A Portland-area middle school teacher for 15 years, Bart is the
author of the national bestseller, The Big Book of Boy Stuff .
More recently, he co-authored The Big Book of Girl Stuff with
his five sisters and 50 former students. And for those of you
seeking a good cure for insomnia (Bart's own words), Oregon State
University project, An Architectural Guidebook
to Portland. Currently,
Bart is working on another book for younger readers tentatively
titled The So-So Sized Book of Mischief and Mayhem. www.bartking.net
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photo by Rene Patron |
Evening Banquet
with Susan Patron:
2007 Newbery Award winner!
$30 Pork loin, Salmon or Vegetable Fettucini
“Luck, Pluck and Adventures of
an Unlikely Controversialist,” is
the title of Patron's evening banquet speech, which will include
her views on receiving the Newbery Award. By now, everyone probably
has read more about the controversy raised by the one troublesome
word (scrotum) in Patron's award-winning book than the entire
book itself. When “The Higher Power of Lucky,” received
the Newbery Award, libraries were quick to buy copies for their
shelves, but not everyone was comfortable with the mention of
a dog's family jewels- so to speak-- at least in a school library.
Patron will set the record straight and give her viewpoints on
children's access to controversial materials as well as talk
about Intellectural Freedom issues, and her work at the Los Angeles
Public Library. |
