NEWS & EVENTS
JIMI makes the
NY Times
Bestseller List
for Picture
Books!!!
check it out at:
NYTimes.com

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