Wordstock Festival 2011

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand is the author of nine books for children and young adults. CESAR: YES, WE CAN!, ¡SÍ, SE PUEDE! and DIEGO: BIGGER THAN LIFE have been Oregon Book Award finalists. Those biographies and FRIDA: ¡VIVA LA VIDA! LONG LIVE LIFE have received Pura Belpré Author Honor Awards. In 2008, the Oregon Library Association‘s Children‘s Division gave her the Evelyn Sibley Lampman Award for her significant contributions to the children of Oregon in...
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Lynn Connor’s THE STONES AND THE POET grew out of her childhood curiosity about Asia and the limited creative nonfiction available for children.

Dana Plautz Dana Plautz is co-creator & co-president of the award-winning children’s website MrsP.com. The website endeavors to expose young people to great books and stories through a celebrity storyteller and to spark their imaginations and creativity with online games and writing contests. She began her career working for producer Norman Lear, creating new markets for entertainment properties. She later worked as a worldwide marketing executive for Hanna-Barbera Studios. She also...
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