Bestselling authors of chapter books featuring girls of color share their strategies for writing books about girls who stand strong but are also full of insecurities as they grow up in an uncertain world. From Amie to Jo Jo Makoons, Gabby Torres, and Lola Levine, how do authors write her world?
| Where: | Education Room 351 (Seats 46, Wheelchair accessible)    |
| When: | Sat, Mar 15, 10:00 am - 10:55 am |
| Signing area: | Signing Area - Children (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Children |
| Moderator: | Desirée Cueto |
| Sponsors: | Session made possible courtesy of Heather and Stephen Caine, Arizona Eye Consultants |
Monica Brown is an award-winning author of more than 30 multicultural picturebooks, including "Waiting for the Biblioburro," "Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match" and "Frida and her Animalitos." Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post and NPR, and she has received two Américas Awards and a Christopher Award....
Karen S. Chow is a Taiwanese-American author, who started writing novels as a college sophomore. Now, she is an engineer by day and middle-grade novelist by night. Her debut novel is "Miracle," a CCBC Best Book of 2024 and an SCBWI Out of the Margins Award winner....
Angela Dominguez is the author and illustrator of books for children including the beloved Stella Díaz series. She is a New York Times Bestseller and a two-time Pura Belpré Illustration Honoree with her books garnering many awards....
Dawn Quigley is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, North Dakota. She is the author of the award-winning Jo Jo Makoons series and the YA novel, "Apple in the Middle." She is an education university faculty member and a former K–12 reading and English teacher, as well as an Indian Education program codirector....
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