Newsletter, Volume 8, Number 7

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In This Issue You'll Find:

• News. See Below.
• Featured Book: Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen.

News:

Here are few upcoming appearances, speeches or workshops by Carol:

• October 11, 2003 - Kentucky School Media Conference in Louisville, KY
• November 4, 2003 - InService Binghamton, NY School Librarians & Teachers in Binghamton, NY
• February 3 & 4, 2004 - InService and Classroom Demonstrations in Clay County, FL

You can find out more information about these by writing to Carol Hurst at rebecca@carolhurst.com

For your information:

October 9-11 2003
"Under Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War" Sponsored by the Cotsen Children's Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University

Speakers will consider the ways in which war informs childhood and children's literature, as well as ways in which children's literature, in turn, informs war.

To register, and for further information, please contact:
http://www.princeton.edu/~cotsen/research/conferences.html

For those who missed our last newsletter the most recent additions to our web site are:

• Featured Subject: Slavery
• Featured Book: Far North by Will Hobbs
• Featured Author: Mitsumasa Anno
• Featured Book: In Plain Sight by Carol Otis Hurst
• Featured Subject: Folk and Fairy Tales, Tongue-in-Cheek Versions.
• Featured Book: The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco.
• Featured Subject: Kids Books Set in Schools.
• Featured Book: Keeper of the Doves by Betsy Byars.
• Featured Subject: Biographies and Memoirs.
• Reading Aloud, Recommended Titles.

Next Section of Newsletter:

Featured Book: Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen