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Recent Appearances

At the 2008 Illinois Reading Conference, where I presented three sessions, I was so pleased to meet Larry Day, the illustrator of our new book, Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak. Two other author friends, Ester Hershenhorn and April Pulley Sayre joined us for lunch.

 

Children's book people are the BEST!!!

 

 
Pat Brisson, an award-winning author, and I frequently present our program, So You Want to Write a Children's Book. We have shared our specific strategies, trade secrets, and timely tips at the Bloomsburg Reading Conference, the Children's Literature course at King's College, Wilkes-Barre, and the Bucks County Intermediate Unit. In the fall, we will offer our program to the New Jersey Association of School Librarians and the Keystone Reading Teachers Conference. Pat and I share our journey from wannabe's to published authors.

 

 

On July 4th of last year, Boston's Old South Meeting House had their annual re-enactment of the tea tax debate leading up to the Boston Tea Party. I signed Colonial Voices in their Museum Shop from 10 AM until 1 PM.
Robin DeBlosi, Old South's enthusiastic Director of Marketing and Events, went all out to publicize the event. Boston residents heard about the book signing on television, read about it in the Boston Globe and in the online listing of Boston Harborfest events on July 4th. After the re-enactment, tourists from Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey, Texas, California and other places, stopped by to chat and buy a book.  I signed  one copy for an unborn child, another for a baby who was celebrating his first 4th of July, another for a child who was being home schooled, one for a teacher who taught 4th grade.  It was great fun.

 

Other Recent Appearances
Library Presentation, Lower Salford Elementary School, Harleysville, PA

Book Signing, Newtown Book Shop, Newton, PA

One-on-One Writer's Conference (Mentor), New Brunswick, NJ

Educator's Night, Barnes and Noble , Whitehall, PA

Book Signing/Presentation, Booktenders, Doylestown, PA

Banquet Speaker/Workshop Presenter/Booksigning, Title One Conference, Tannersville, PA

Book Signing/Presentation, Barnes and Noble, Whitehall, PA

Book Signing, NAIBA, Atlantic City, NJ

Panel Presentation/Booksigning, PA School Library Association, Doylestown, PA

Presentation, Bucks County Librarians, Quakertown, PA

Book Signing, Moravian Bookstore, Bethlehem, PA

Presentation/Booksigning, My Teacher for President Contest Celebration, Barnes and Noble, Whitehall, PA

Panel Presentation/Booksigning, Ed. Media Association, New Brunswick, NJ

Featured Author, Wisconsin Reading Conference, Milwaukee, WI

Featured Author, Young Authors Conference, Milwaukee, WI

Banquet Speaker/Workshop Presenter, PA PTA Convention, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Featured Speaker, SCBWI(Eastern PA) Conference, Sterling Inn, Sterling, PA

Booksigning, Friendly Bookstore, Quakertown, PA

                   

Some of Kay's Earlier Presentations and Appearances

State Department of Education: Harrisburg, PA
Children and Literature: Making the Connection

American International Schools - Italy, Egypt, Jordan, India, Nepal

NESA - Near East South Asia Conference - Crete, Greece
Conference for International Schools

National IRA - New Orleans

National IRA - Toronto

National NCTE - Atlanta

Keystone State Reading Conf., PA

Kutztown University Reading Conf., PA

Lehigh Reading Conference

Lehigh University - Year of the Writer Conf.

National EKNE - Elementary, Kindergarten, Nursery Educators

Shenandoah University, Winchester, Va.
Children’s Literature Conf.

Hodge Podge Children’s Literature Conf., (2 Appearances)
Albany, NY

Delaware County IRA (Regional), Featured Author
Glenside, PA

SCBWI, Eastern PA, Fall Philly Conference
Westchester, PA

Early Childhood Ed. Conference, Keynote Speaker
Northampton Comm. College

Keystone Reading Conference,
Seven Springs, PA

Bloomsburg Reading Conference,
Hershey, PA

SCBWI- New York Regional Conference
 New York University

New School Author Seminar
NYC

International Reading Association, Bucks Co.
Fall Brunch

SCBWI - Regional, NJ Chapter
Princeton, NJ

Bucks Co. School Librarians
Doylestown, PA

Eastern PA SCBWI Spring Conference
S. Sterling, PA

Tri-County IRA Book Fest
Montgomery Co., PA

Children's Reading Round Table
Philadelphia Free Library

James Michener Library
Quakertown, PA

 

Bowman and Handley Libraries
Winchester, Virginia

Emmaus Public Library
Emmaus, PA

Barnes and Nobel: Educator's Night
Whitehall, PA

Barnes and Nobel: Writer's Night
Montgomeryville, PA

Bucks County IRA: Fall Brunch
Peddler's Village, PA

Barnes and Nobel: Reading Debut
Whitehall, PA

Barnes and Nobel: Abe Lincoln
Montgomeryville, PA

Read Across America - Lafayette College
Easton, PA

Moravian Bookstore
Bethlehem, PA

Kutztown U. Children's Literature Festival
Kutztown, PA

Tri-County IRA
Lancaster, PA

Literacy Fest - Tri-County IRA
Montgomery County, PA

NCTE (Regional)-Luncheon Speaker
Wichita, Kansas

Keystone Reading Conference
Hershey, PA

Chris's Corner Children's Book Store
Philadelphia, PA

Indiana School Media Educators
Indianapolis, Indiana

NJ Educator's Media Association
East Brunswick, NJ

 

 

 

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