Saturday, October 27, 2012

9:00 a.m. Lobby	Doors open Registration check-in Complimentary coffee and tea
10:00 a.m. Auditorium	Program begins with welcome remarks from Jennifer M. Brown
10:05-10:25 a.m. Auditorium	Conversation with Caroline Fraser on Laura Ingalls Wilder. Introduction by Max Rudin, publisher, The Library of America
10:25-11:20 a.m. Auditorium	Panel discussion – How to Hook Middle Grade Readers Bruce Coville & Elizabeth Levy, co-authors of Paula Danziger’s Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink (Putnam) Adam Gidwitz, author of In a Glass Grimmly (Dutton) John Coy, author of Take Your Best Shot (Feiwel & Friends) Michael Dahl, as Jake Maddox, author of Point Guard Prank (Capstone) Moderator: Jennifer Hubert Swan
11:20-11:25 a.m.	Break
11:25 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Classrooms	Discussion Groups
12:30-1:25 p.m. Kitchen & Lobby	Lunch Book Signing
1:30-2:00 p.m. Auditorium	Keynote – The 20th Anniversary of The Magic Tree House Series Mary Pope Osborne
2:00-2:55 p.m. Auditorium	Panel discussion – Mirror/Window Books E.B. Lewis, illustrator of Each Kindness (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin) Andrea Davis Pinkney, author of Bird in a Box (Little, Brown) Jacqueline Woodson, author of Each Kindness (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin) Dan Yaccarino, author of All the Way To America: The Story of A Big Italian Family and A Little Shovel (Knopf) Moderator: Rita Auerbach
2:55 p.m. Auditorium	Brief closing remarks by Jennifer M. Brown
3:00-3:30 p.m. Lobby	Book signing