Multnomah County Library KidsPage Multnomah County Library 1999 Children's Author Lecture
Patricia Polacco
presents

Teachers
Are
Heroes

photo of Patricia Polacco

"We collect things and memories and store them lovingly in the recesses of our souls... only to be brought out into the sunlight by telling about them over and over again."

Ms. Polacco is the author of numerous American Library Association Notable Children's Books and National Council of Teachers of English Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts.

Her books include:
Babushka Baba Yaga
Chicken Sunday
Just Plain Fancy
The Keeping Quilt
Mrs. Katz and Tush
Pink and Say
Thank You, Mr. Falker

 
. Patricia Polacco self-portrait

Wed., March 10, 1999 * 7:30 p.m.

First Congregational Church
1126 S.W. Park Avenue, Portland

A dessert reception follows the lecture.

Tickets: $10 adults * $5 students

On sale February 1 - March 7 at the Friends' Library Store at Central Library, Multnomah County Library Administration, Hillsdale Branch Library, Hollywood Branch Library and Midland Regional Library.

Tickets are also available at: A Children's Place, Annie Bloom's Books, B. Dalton Bookseller at Vancouver Mall, Looking Glass Book Store, Twenty-Third Avenue Books and Jackson's Books in Salem.

For more information or to order tickets by mail, call (503) 248-5402.

Last year's lecture sold out. Buy your tickets early!

Book sale before and after the lecture courtesy of Annie Bloom's Books. Each book purchased at the lecture will include a copy of an autographed bookplate.


Patricia Polacco links:
 
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