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Author of "Sarah, Plain and Tall" Speaking in Abromson Center on 7/15

July 13, 2006

Patricia MacLachlan, author of the Newberry Award-winning book, "Sarah, Plain and Tall," Molly Bang, winner of three Caldecott Awards, and Jack Gantos, author of the Newbery Honor Book "Joey Pigza Loses Control" will be speaking at USM's "In Celebration of Children's Literature" conference, Saturday, July 15. Held in the Abromson Community Education Center, the conference has been popular with teachers and librarians for 25 years. Joyce Martin has planned the conference, sponsored by USM's Professional Development Center in the College of Education and Human Development, each year. The conference will conclude with a performance by musician and storyteller Jennifer Armstrong, who performs and records multi-cultural folk songs, stories and poetry.

For more information about the guest speakers and the conference, see http://www.usm.maine.edu/pdc/cele.htm, or call Judie O'Malley, USM Public Affairs, at 780-4200.

The media is invited to any of the sessions. A schedule follows:

9-9:10 a.m.: Welcome (Joyce Martin)

9:15 - 10:15 a.m.: Patricia MacLachlan, "The Family I call Mine"

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.: Molly Bang, "Playing with Pictures"

11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.: Jack Gantos, "Everything is Personal"

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.: Panel Discussion with all authors, "The Personal and Public Power of Children's Literature"

2:45 - 3:30 In Concert with Jennifer Armstrong

3:30 Reception, Autographing and Booksales

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