This year, Children’s Book Week events will be hosted in over 40 cities across the country. Children’s Book Week is the longest running literacy event in the country administered by the Children’s Book Council, in association with the CBC Foundation.
Politics and Prose has been chosen as the official Children’s Book Week event host in Washington, DC. Each event will feature multiple authors and illustrators and all are free and open to the public. Attendees will receive Children’s Book Week posters and tote bags (while supplies last).
Politics and Prose will be hosting the following activities to celebrate Children’s Book Week:
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Time TBD
Start the celebration early with Sara Pennypacker, author of Summer of the Gypsy Moths
Thursday, May 3, 2012
10:30 am
Paul Zelinsky, illustrator of Z is for Moose
Friday, May 4, 2012
4:30 pm
Kristin Cashore for the highly anticipated Bitterblue at the Bethesda Library
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
10:30 am
Jane O’Connor author of Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy Super Sleuth, a new book from the popular Fancy Nancy series!
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
10:30 am
Sharon M. Draper, author of Out of My Mind
Thursday, May 10, 2012
5:00 pm
Paolo Bacigalupi for The Drowned Cities at the Bethesda Library
