Kate Messner and Padma Venkatraman
Kate Messner and Padma Venkatraman
Kate Messner
New York Times-bestselling author Kate Messner is passionately curious and writes books for kids who wonder, too. Her titles include award-winning picture books like Over and Under the Snow , The Brilliant Deep, and How to Write a Story; novels like All the Answers, Breakout, and Chirp; nonfiction like The Next President and Tracking Tortoises; the popular Ranger in Time chapter book adventures, the Fergus and Zeke easy readers, and the History Smashers graphic nonfiction series.
Padma Venkatraman
Padma Venkatraman is the author of The Bridge Home (a 2019 Global Read Aloud, WNDB Walter Award & SCBWI Golden Kite winner); A Time to Dance (the first South Asian American verse novel for young people); Island's End (South Asia Book Award winner) and Climbing the Stairs (Julia Ward Howe Award winner). Her latest novel, Born Behind Bars (a Parent Magazine Book of the Month and Junior Library Guild Selection), was released in September, 2021 to starred reviews in Kirkus, SLJ, and Booklist.
Program A
- A sixty-minute, moderator-free, one-on-one conversation. Forty-five minutes of dialogue followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Two sixty-minute presentations. Each presenter delivers a forty-five minute address followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Book signings
Program B
- A sixty-minute, moderator-free, one-on-one conversation. Forty-five minutes of dialogue followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Two sixty-minute presentations. Each presenter delivers a forty-five minute address followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Two ninety-minute, deep-dive breakout sessions. Each presenter leads one separate small-group (limited to thirty attendees) craft workshop.
- Book signings
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