Thanks to our Fabulous Author Participants and Attendees at the Speed Dating and Tea with Children's Authors Events at BEA!

May 26, 2011

Thanks so much to all of our charming author participants and enthusiastic attendees at our 2 BEA events this year, co-sponsored by the ABC Children's Group at ABA!

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Speed Dating with Children's Authors, held annually at BEA (Tuesday, May 24th this year), is a unique opportunity for teachers, librarians, booksellers, and other literary professionals to get to know children's book authors up close and personal! Big thanks to our participating authors this year!

• David A. Adler, Mystery Math: A First Book of Algebra (Holiday House)
• Jane Hampton Cook, What Does the President Look Like? (Kane Miller)
• James Dashner, The Death Cure(Random House)
• Lisa Greenwald, Reel Life at Rockwood Hills (Abrams)
• Laura Lee Gulledge, Page By Paige (Abrams)
• Jeff Hirsch, The Eleventh Plague (Scholastic)
• Carrie Jones, After Obsession (Bloomsbury)
• Alan Katz,Mosquitoes Are Ruining My Summer; Me Me Mine; Poems I Wrote When No One Was Looking (Simon & Schuster)
• Jon Klassen, I Want My Hat Back (Candlewick)
• Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me (HarperCollins)
• Kate McMullan, Myth-o-Mania series (Capstone)
• Jennifer Roy,MindBlind (Marshall Cavendish)
• Marie Rutkoski, The Jewel of the Kalderash (Macmillan)
• Clete Smith, Aliens on Vacation (Disney)
• Ashley Spires, Binky Under Pressure (Kids Can)
• Susan Stockdale, Bring on the Birds (Peachtree)
• Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Little, Brown)
• Linda Urban, Hound Dog True (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Meg Wolitzer, The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman (Penguin)

Tea with Childrens Authors, held on Wednesday, May 25th at BEA this year, gives librarians and booksellers a chance to chat with some of the industry's brightest stars in a more relaxed and casual environment. Each author joins a table of book enthusiasts for refreshments and an open-ended conversation about the author's life and work.

Thanks so much to our author particpants!

• Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, The Bridge to Neverland (Disney)
• Anna Dewdney, Llama Llama Home With Mama (Penguin)
• Mordecai Gerstein, Dear Hot Dog (Abrams)
• Hilary Knight, Nina in That Makes Me Mad! (Candlewick)
• Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers, We Are America (HarperCollins)
• Christopher Paolini, Inheritance #4 (Random House)
• Jerry Pinkney, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (Little, Brown)
• Judy Schachner, Skippyjon Jones: Class Action (Penguin)
• Marilyn Singer,Tallulah's Tutu; A Stick Is an Excellent Thing (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races (Scholastic)
• R.L. Stine,The First Day of School ... Forever! (Macmillan)
• Scott Westerfeld, Goliath (Simon & Schuster)