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​2024 Presentation schedule 

(*SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*)

*ASL interpreters are available. Please stop at RIT/NTID table outside Author/Illustrator Mall to make request.

Presentations that are ASL interpreted are done by students from RIT/NTID providing pro-bono services for their Practicum*

WEGMANS PRESENTATION PLACE (Empire Room)

10:30 Rachel DiNunzio – Forsynthia’s Girls Who STEAM! A New Kind of Elementary School Club

11:00 Rashin Kheiriyeh –Celebrating Diverse Children’s Books

11:30  Andrea Page, Stacy Wells & Laurel Goodluck – Native Kidlit Book Talk

12:00  Chris Grabenstein – Let’s Build a Story with Chris Grabenstein & Stinky D. Skunk

12:30 Nikki Grimes –A Walk in the Woods: The Story Behind the Story

1:00 Jane Yolen & Heidi Stemple – We Celebrate the Books

1:30  J.N. Courtney – “Rats with Backpacks” & Dr. Donna Kean

2:00 London Ladd – Emotional Connections

2:30  Keely Hutton – Composing a Story with Heart

3:00  Sally Valentine –Where’s Ollie? A Tour of Rochester Landmarks & the Books They Inspired

 

FFRPL CONVERSATION STATION  (Brighton Room)

10:25  D.J. Brandon – Facts in Fiction: Bringing Imaginative Stories to Life

10:55  Rose O’Keefe – Frederick & Anna Murray Douglass

11:25  Nikki Shannon Smith – So I Wrote this Book

11:55  Paul Zelinsky –Still Life & the Pleasure of Messes

12:25 Mackenzie Reed – Let’s Talk Creative Writing

12:55 Judy Bradbury – What a Character! Meet the Cayuga Island Kids

1:25  Alysa Wishingrad – From Monster to Marvel: Create Your Own Monster with Alysa Wishingrad

1:55  Jeff Mack (Reading) -- Time to Make Art

2:15  Ellen Stoll Walsh  (Reading) – Mouse Paint

2:35 Kathleen Blasi  (Reading) – Milo’s Moon Mission

2:55  Mylisa Larsen  (Reading) — All of Those Babies

 

WXXI READ TO ME CORNER  (Terrace)

10:25  Joanne Insull – Where the Ravens Came

10:45  Kevin Kurtz – A Day in a Forested Wetland

11:05  Julie Berry – The Night Frolic

11:25  M. O. Yuksel –  In My Mosque

11:45  Linda Sue Park – My Book and Me

12:05  Christopher L. & Jessica Ottnod – Lumo’s Wish

12:25  Peggy Thomas – The Soil in Jackie’s Garden

12:45  Rajani LaRocca –Masala Chai, Fast and Slow

1:05  Will Hubbell – Pumpkin Jack

1:25 Alyssa Capucilli – The Library Fish Learns to Read

1:45 Natalie Nordlund – My Peaceful Place

2:05  STAGES – Children’s Theater group

2:30  Anika Aldamuy Denise – Gato Guapo

2:50  Valerie Bolling – The Orange Wall

3:10 Laurel Goodluck –Rock Your Mocs

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