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featuring KEYNOTE SPEAKERS KEVIN HENKES and DONALYN MILLER
Kevin Henkes is the author and illustrator
of more than 50 critically acclaimed and
award-winning picture books, beginning
readers, and novels. He received the
Caldecott Medal for Kitten’s First Full Moon
in 2005, and Waiting won a Caldecott
Honor and Geisel Honor in 2016. Kevin
Henkes is also the creator of a number of picture
books featuring his mouse characters, including
the #1 New York Times bestsellers Lilly’s Big Day
and Wemberly Worried, the Caldecott Honor
book Owen, and the beloved Lilly’s Purple Plastic
Purse. Kevin Henkes received two Newbery
Honors for novels — one for The Year of Billy
Miller and the other for Olive’s Ocean. His ction for older readers includes the novels: Junonia, Bird Lake Moon,
The Birthday Room, Sun & Spoon, and his newest novel, Sweeping Up the Heart. Click here for complete biography.
is a leading expert on independent reading, children’s literature, and the author of two
bestsellers, The Book Whisperer and Reading
in the Wild. She is founder of the annual
#bookaday event, co-founder with Colby Sharp
of The Nerdy Book Club, and co-host of the
monthly Twitter chat, #titletalk. Her most recent book is co- authored with Colby Sharp, Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids. Click here for complete biography.
Photo credit: Marta X. Perez