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JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA • Houston
Jarrett J. Krosoczka has been passionate about storytelling through words and pictures since he was a kid. Jarrett is a two-time winner of the Children’s Choice Book Award
and has been a nalist for the prestigious Will Eisner Comic Industry Award. He is the author and/or illustrator of more than 25 books for young readers, including the New York Times best-selling Star Wars Jedi Academy: A New Class. Jarrett’s books have also been recommended by national publications such as Newsweek, The New York Times, and
USA Today. He has delivered two TED Talks, which have collectively accrued more than 2 million views online. Krosoczka has been featured on NPR and can be heard weekly on The Book Report with JJK on SiriusXM’s Kids Place Live, a show focusing on books, authors, and reading. His Punk Farm, Lunch Lady, and Platypus Police Squad series are all currently in development for lm. Jarrett lives in western Massachusetts with family.
LESTER L. LAMINACK • Raleigh-Durham
Lester L. Laminack is professor emeritus at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, where he received two awards for excellence in teaching. He is now a full- time writer and consultant working with schools throughout the United States. Lester is an active member of the National Council of Teachers of English and served as co-editor of Primary Voices and the children’s book review column of Language Arts. He also served as a teaching editor for the magazine Teaching K-8 and wrote the Parent Connection column. He is a former member of the Whole Language Umbrella Governing Board, the governing
board and secretary of the North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children, and the board of directors for the Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking. Lester served as the basic reading consultant to Literacy Volunteers of America from 1987 through 2001 and as a member of the board of directors of Our Children’s Place [ourchildrensplace. com]. He is the current column editor for The Writing Department of the ILA journal, The Reading Teacher.
His academic publications include several books: Learning with Zachary (Scholastic), Spelling in Use (NCTE), Volunteers Working with Young Readers (NCTE), and his contributions to The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (NCTE), Learning Under the In uence of Language and Literature (Heinemann), Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum (Heinemann), The Writing Teacher’s Troubleshooting Guide (Heinemann), Writers ARE Readers (Heinemann), Bullying Hurts (Heinemann), Cracking Open the Author’s Craft (Scholastic), and Unwrapping the Read Aloud (Scholastic). His newest work with Scholastic is The Ultimate Read-Aloud Resource: Making Every Moment Intentional and Instructional With Best Friend Books* (2016) and Best Friend Fiction Kits for Grades K-5* (2016). In addition, he has several articles published in journals such as The Reading Teacher, Early Years, Language Arts, Teaching pre-K/8, and Young Children. Lester is also the author of six children’s books: The Sunsets of Miss Olivia Wiggins, Trevor’s Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth, Saturdays and Tea Cakes, Jake’s 100th Day of School, Snow Day!, Three Hens and a Peacock, and a forthcoming title, The King of Bees (all from Peachtree Publishers).
Lester earned a B.S. and M.S. in Elementary Education from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, and an Ed.D. in Elementary Education and Reading from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. Learn more about Lester Laminack and purchase his book in the digital Guidebook.*
Workshop: When Books Become Best Friends: One Book/Many Visits (Chicago AM & PM) Workshop: Independent Reading: Where We’ve Been. Where We’re Going (Raleigh - PM Panelist)
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