Children's Book Guild Programs 2011- 2012

Friday, September 23

Uma Krishnaswami (At Channel Inn, Washington, DC)
NOTE: THIS IS A FRIDAY
Author of books, many of which are set in India, including The Grand Plan to Everything and Out of the Way

Thursday, October 20

Barb Langridge (At Bailey's Sports Grille, 2010-A Crystal Dr, Arlington, VA 22202 Metro: Ballston)
Creator of A Book and a Hug website and on-air book reviewer for the NBC affiliate in Baltimore.  She also interviews authors for her own cable show.

Thursday, November 17

Kathryn Erskine (At Channel Inn, Washington, DC)
Author of Mockingbird, a book about a girl with Asperger's syndrome, which won the National Book Award

Thursday, December 8

Paul Zelinsky (At Channel Inn, Washington, DC)
Caldecott-winning illustrator for Rapunzel; Caldecott honor for Swamp Angel. New book: Dust Devil.

Saturday, January 14

Holiday Party - home of Laura Krauss Melmed, Washington, DC (Guild members and guests)

Thursday, January 19

Ruta Sepetys (At Channel Inn, Washington, DC)
Author of Between Shades of Gray, about a Lithuanian girl in 1941: won the SCBWI works-in-progress grant and is a Junior Library Guild selection

WEDNESDAY, February 15 - Evening Meeting!

Marc Nobleman (Guild member)
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. D.C. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave NW
Optional dinner after the meeting across the street at Guapo's
Author/cartoonist of more than 70 books and a new Guild member. New book: Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman

Thursday, March 15 - Evening Meeting!

Business meeting/Catherine Reef
6:30 p.m. - National Geographic - 1145 17th St NW, Washington, D.C.
"Creating a Biographical Portrait of Jane Austen"
Catherine Reef will talk about her recent book Jane Austen: A Life Revealed and the challenges she faced while writing a biography of one of the world's most famous women--about whom surprisingly little is known!

April 21, 2012: Nonfiction Award Celebration to honor Peter Sis

Thursday, May 17

John Bemelmans Marciano
His grandfather created the Madeline books. He is an author and illustrator of several books including The Life and Art of Madeline’s Creator.  

Thursday, June 14

Pam Coughlan (At Bailey's Sports Grille, Arlington, VA)
She is on the Fiction Book Category Committee of the Cybils Award and will talk about bloggers’ literary awards.