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Author Angela Morrison shared her books on December 9, 2009 at the Arizona Library Association Conference
in Glendale, Arizona.
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SCBWI AZ "WELCOME TO OUR HOUSE" ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Which Way is Up? Navigating Today's Winding Roads to Publication
September 26, 2009
SCBWI AZ Faculty and Staff pose at the farewell dinner of
the Annual SCBWI AZ "Welcome to Our House"
Annual Conference on September 26, 2009.
Michelle Parker-Rock, SCBWI AZ Regional Advisor,
welcomed attendees and faculty.
Jennifer Rees, Senior Editor Scholastic Press,
shares her love of books and helps attendees navigate the world of Scholastic and beyond.
Miriam Hees, Publisher of Blooming Tree Press,
gives attendees a road map for navigating her small independent publishing house.
Kate Jacobs, Associate Editor at Roaring Brook Press, presents at her first SCBWI conference and offers attendees navigation tips to support them as they travel through the narrows.
Laura Rennert, Senior Agent with Andrea Brown Literary Agency offers an agent's eye view and suggestions for how to get from audition to offer.
Loraine Joyner, Art Director at Peachtree Publishers, mapped out a path for the explorer in the world of children's book illustration.
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38th Annual SCBWI Summer Conference
August 7-10, 2009
Los Angeles, California
Hyewon Yum accepting the 2009 Golden Kite
for Picture Book Illustration for her book Last Night.
Bonny Becker accepting the 2009 Golden Kite
for Picture Book Text for her book A Visitor for Bear.
Pamela Turner accepting the 2009 Golden Kite
for Nonfiction for her book A Life in the Wild.
Steve Watkins accepting the Golden Kite
for Fiction for his book Down Sand Mountain.
Donna Gephart accepting the 2009
Sid Fleischman Humor Award
for her book My Mother is Running for President.
Other Conference Photos
Sydney Salter Husseman
and her book My Big Nose.
and her book My Big Nose.
Chris Eboch. author of
Haunted: The Ghost on the Stairs,
Haunted: The Ghost on the Stairs,
Best-selling Author of Tricks Ellen Hopkins
with editor Emma Dryden.
Western Pennsylvania Co-Regional Advisor
Marcy Canterna with Michelle Parker-Rock,
author of Linda Sue Park, An Author Kids Love.
author of Linda Sue Park, An Author Kids Love.
Award-winning illustrator David Diaz,
Art Director/Vice President at Penguin
Young Readers Group Cecilia Yung, and
SCBWI Illustrator Coordinator
Priscilla Burris.
Art Director/Vice President at Penguin
Young Readers Group Cecilia Yung, and
SCBWI Illustrator Coordinator
Priscilla Burris.
Award-winning
author Richard Peck
at the Golden Kite luncheon.
at the Golden Kite luncheon.
Author Richard Peck
and Literary Agent Marietta B. Zacker.
Author Lisa Yee.
SCBWI Arizona
at the
International Reading Association Convention West
Author Susan Allen, Read Anything Good Lately? (Lerner/Millbrook press) with Michelle Parker-Rock.
SCBWI Arizona Regional Advisor and author of the Authors Kids Love Series (Enslow) Michelle Parker-Rock at the International Reading Association Convention West with members Sheri Sinykin, author of Giving Up the Ghost (Peachtree), and Molly Idle, anthor/illustrator of Nighty Night, Noah (Abingdon Press) at the SCBWI AZ booth.
Troy Williams and Eileen Baughman
from Gardners Book Service.
Michelle Parker-Rock, author of
the Authors Kids Love Series,
including Jack Gantos, An Author Kids Love,
(Enslow Publishers)
and Jack Gantos,
author of Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
