Children's Author Lecture

This year's author is Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen is a prolific and award-wining author, poet, and anthologist. Her first book was published in 1961 and more than 300 have followed, from How do Dinosaurs say Good Night?, to The Devil's Arithmetic, to Commander Toad, to Briar Rose. Newsweek called Jane Yolen "the Hans Christian Andersen of America" and the New York Times called her "a modern equivalent of Aesop." She's a pithy and humorous speaker, bound to surprise you with keen observations on writing and storytelling. Please join us!

Location, time

Monday, April 12, 2010
7 p.m. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
First Congregational Church
1126 S.W. Park Ave., Portland

Tickets

$10 Adult
$5 Student (K-12)

Tickets are on sale March 1 at Library Administration and Central, Gresham, Hillsdale, Hollywood, Midland, Northwest, Sellwood-Moreland and St. Johns libraries.

Local bookstores Annie Bloom's Books, Green Bean Books, Powell's Books, and A Children's Place will sell tickets as well.

To order tickets by mail or for more information, call 503.988.5402.

After her talk, Ms. Yolen will autograph her books, which will be available for purchase.

More Information

Books by Jane Yolen
Official author web site with essays, poems, author biography, and more.

The Children's Author Lecture is made possible in part by The Library Foundation. Additional support comes from Riverdale School District, Hotel Monaco and McCormick and Schmick's.