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8th Annual International Children's
and Young Adult Literature Celebration

Saturday, November 21, 2009
Memorial Union, Madison, WI

The International Children's Literature Day is an all-day interactive workshop for K-12 educators, librarians, and children's literature enthusiasts, with an aim to internationalize statewide reading curriculum. This event is being sponsored by the Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (WIOC).

The 2009 Celebration wil feature Sylviane Diouf, Rachna Gilmore & James Rumford (plus one additional as yet unconfirmed author).

 

This event is sponsored by the Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (WIOC) in observance of International Education Week 2008. International Education Week is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States.

 


Information on past conferences is available by following any of the links below.

International Children's Literature Celebration 2008
with
Meshack Asare, Bodil Bredsdorff, Margarita Engle & Cynthia Kadohata

International Children's
Literature Celebration
2002

with

Ibtisam Barakat, Tololwa Mollel, Kyoko Mori & Suzanne Fisher Staples

International Children's
Literature Celebration
2003

with

Lulu Delacre, Ji-Li Jiang, Rukshana Khan &
Serpil Ural

International Children's Literature Celebration
2004

with

International Children's
Literature Celebration
2005

with

Uma Krishnaswami, Yuyi Morales, Pegi Deitz Shea & Tatiana Zunshine

International Children's Literature Celebration
2006

with

Yangsook Choi, Cathryn Clinton, Suzanne Fisher Staples & Yona Zeldis

International Children's Literature Celebration
2007

with

Beverley Naidoo, Naomi Shihab Nye & Kashmira Sheth

 


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