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NEWS & EVENTS |
Listen to the National Public Radio (NPR) interview! -click on the link below and hit the "Listen Now" button- NPR.org |
Javaka Steptoe wins the 2011 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award for JIMI: Sounds Like A Rainbow! *click here for press release* |
watch the video for: "Writing Dangerously" A Public Panel Sponsored by the PEN Children's and Young Adult Book Authors Committee Panelists included Nora Raleigh Baskin, author of the ALA Schneider Award-winning Anything But Typical; 2011 Newbery Honor winner Rita Williams-Garcia, author of One Crazy Summer; Adam Gidwitz, author of A Tale Dark and Grimm, a Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal Best Children’s Book of 2010; and Gary Golio, author of the NY Times bestselling Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow – A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix and the forthcoming When Bob Met Woody. Moderated by Beverly Horowitz, Vice President and Publisher of Delacorte Press (from 2/7/11, at the Instituto Cervantes, 211 East 49th Street, NYC) video link |
When Bob Met Woody 2011 Book Launch Events 5/6 - Booksigning & Launch Celebration THE VILLAGE BOOKSTORE 10 Washington Avenue, Pleasantville, NY 914 769-8322 7:30 pm 5/7 - 3rd Annual Hudson Children's Book Festival Hudson Junior High School 215 Harry Howard Avenue Hudson, NY 12534 10am to 4 pm 5/14 - Booksigning & Performance THE VORACIOUS READER 1997 Palmer Avenue, Larchmont, NY www.thevoraciousreader.com 914 630-4581 2:30 pm 5/15 - Booksigning & Author's Panel BOOKS OF WONDER 18 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011 212 989-3270 1 to 3 pm 7/22 - WRITING MATTERS Authors Panel Watchung Booksellers 54 Fairfield Street Watchung Plaza Montclair, NJ 07042 973 744-7177 7 pm 9/16 - Booksigining & Author Discussion Chappaqua Public Library 195 South Greeley Avenue Chappaqua, NY 10514-3398 914 238-4779 time TBA 9/25 - Booksigning & Family Performance CELEBRATE CHILDREN'S BOOK DAY Washington Irving's Sunnyside 89 W. Sunnyside Lane, Tarrytown, NY 914 591-8763 TBA (admission fee) |
WBMW receives 2011 National Parenting Publications Award, recognizing the best in children's products and parenting resources! www.parenthood.com |
NEWS FLASH! |
Rolling Stone Declares Jimi Hendrix the Greatest Guitarist of All Time!! read the Jimi tribute essay by Pete Townshend below Rolling Stone article |