Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, June 21, 1994 TAG: 9406290010
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Author Libba Moore Gray will speak on June 29 on the writing process. She has written ``Miss Tizzy,'' ``Dear Willie Rudd,'' ``The Little Black Truck'' and ``Fenton's Leap.''
On July 6, there will be a panel discussion on writing for children. Panelists will be Nancy Patterson of Roanoke, author of ``The Christmas Cup'' and ``The Shiniest Rock of All''; Lou Kassem of Blacksburg, author of ``Middle School Blues,'' ``Odd One Out'' and ``Listen for Rachel''; and Betsy Cole of Martinsville, author of ``Green Creatures Ten to One'' and ``Is Aetosaur a Dinosaur?''.
On July 12, Pulitzer Prize winning author Alison Lurie will speak on good and bad children's books. She is author of ``Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales,'' ``The Heavenly Zoo,'' ``Fabulous Beasts'' and ``Don't Tell the Grownups: Subsersive Children's Literature.''
Book publisher William R. Scott will talk about books that helped shape American children's literature on July 14.
Sandra Summer, whose recordings of Margaret Wise Brown's poetry will be released this summer, will perform several songs and discuss Brown's poetry on July 19.
And, on July 25, Barbara Lucas, children's book packager and agent for Lucas-Evans, will talk about publishing children's books in the '90s.
For more information, call Amanda Cockrell, the director of Hollins' children's literature program, at 362-6024.
by CNB