Tucson Festival of Books

Caryl Crowell

Caryl Crowell is a retired TUSD teacher who continues to be active in the education community as a volunteer and the Chair of the NCTE Orbis Pictus Committee. She is a Credentialed Systems Thinking associate trainer for the Waters Center for Systems Thinking and a docent at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. She fills the rest of her time with art classes and travel.

Arizona author

Awards: Kenneth S. Goodman In Defense of Good Teaching Award, 2015

Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan, Educator

Scheduled events:

Teen Worlds: YA Author Carousel

Meet a bunch of YA authors in 60 minutes and enter teen worlds of fantasy, mystery and complicated relationships. Each author will be seated at a table to talk with a small group about their newest book. Every eight minutes the authors will rotate to a new table in our version of author speed-dating.

Education Room 211 (Kiva) (Seats 200)

Sun, Mar 15, 10:00 am - 10:55 am
Teen
Signing area: Signing Area - Children (following presentation)

Panelists: Kat Cho, Emiko Jean, Susan Dennard, Alexander Greengaard, Tiffany D. Jackson, Cassandra James, Autumn Krause, Sunya Mara, Sasha Peyton Smith
Moderators: Magdalena Castillo-Cockrum, Caryl Crowell
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of HarperCollins Children's Books, Worlds of Words

Teaching with Award-Winning Nonfiction

The nonfiction books selected for the 2026 NCTE Orbis Pictus Awards include scientific, historical, and cultural topics important to K-8 classrooms. Get a close look at the award-winning books and explore how to use them in the classroom.

Education Room 333: Parent Educator (Seats 44, Wheelchair accessible)

Sun, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm
Children
Signing area: No Signing for this Panel (following presentation)

Panelist: Caryl Crowell
Moderator: Caryl Crowell
Sponsor: Session made possible courtesy of Southside Community School