Celebrate Books!
Book Week 2008
Featured speaker: Joyce Sidman
October 14 - October 16, 2008
Joyce Sidman
That Joyce Sidman is someone who loves to “poke around outside,”
pondering the significance of all she observes near Maine or
Minnesota ponds and meadows, is evident in the poems she writes in
books such as Caldecott Honor Award winner Song of the Water
Boatman or Butterfly Eyes. That Joyce loves dogs is
evident in books like The World According to Dog or Meow
Ruff. That Joyce knows children’s interests, concerns and
desires is evident in This is Just to Say, in poems written
so convincingly in the voices of 6th. grade students that readers
believe they – and not Joyce – have actually written them. But most
of all when reading her seven published books, it is evident that
Joyce loves words and uses them especially skillfully in creating
images and metaphors that sing.
Book Week is supported by the Department of Curriculum and
Instruction of the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD),
University of Minnesota; by the generous contributions of Ms. Ruth
Mitchell and other CEHD alumni; The Red Balloon Bookshop; and by the
Children’s Literature Research Collections, Andersen Library,
University of Minnesota. Books will be available for purchase and
signing by the author courtesy of The Red Balloon Bookshop.
Book display
Andersen Library Atrium
noon to 6:15 p.m., Tuesday, October 14
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday, October 15
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday, October 16
Review of new books
Willey Hall Auditorium
4 - 5:30
p.m., Tuesday, October 14
Appetizers* from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Evening lecture*
Willey Hall Auditorium
6:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 14
* $15
charge for appetizers and/or lecture
Please send checks made out to the University of Minnesota to Cathy
Zemke, Peik Hall, 159 Pillsbury Drive S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455.
The Andersen Library is located at 222
21st Avenue South, Minneapolis on the West Bank campus.
To reach the library from St. Paul, take I-94 west to
Cedar. Turn right on Cedar to Washington Avenue. Turn right on
Washington and then left at the first stoplight into the Holiday Inn
Metrodome parking ramp.
To reach the library from Minneapolis, take 35W north to
the 3rd Street/West Bank/East Bank exit, following the West Bank
Exit to Washington Avenue. Turn right on Washington to the junction
with Cedar. Turn left, staying on Washington.
Parking is available in University
lots adjacent to the Law School and the 19th Street Ramp ($2.50 per
hour), and is also available in the ramp adjacent to the Holiday Inn
Metrodome on Washington Avenue. To walk to the library, cross 19th
Avenue South. Walk along the north side of the Law School (Mondale
Hall). You’ll see the corner of the library and the obelisk as you
walk.
Map to Andersen
Library
Map
to Willey Hall
19th Ave. Parking Ramp
Questions? Contact Cathy Zemke at 612-625-7835 or via e-mail at
zemke001@umn.edu.
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