Monroe Community College
R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center
1000 East Henrietta Road
Rochester, New York 14623
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Free Parking in Lot M
(*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