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Carmen Oliver is the author of many award-winning picture books for children including A Voice for the Spirit Bears: How One Boy Inspired Millions to Save a Rare Animal, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard, Building an Orchestra of Hope: How Favio Chavez Taught Children to Make Music From Trash, a Junior Library Gold Standard (Oct 25, 2022), and The Twilight Library (Sept 6, 2022). She’s also the author of the Bears Make the Best Buddies series (Reading, Writing, Math, Science). In 2014, Carmen founded the Booking Biz, a boutique style agency that brings award-winning children’s authors and illustrators to schools, libraries, and special events. She also teaches writing at the Writing Barn and The Highlights Foundation and loves speaking at schools, conferences and festivals. She lives with her family outside of Austin, Texas.Join us as Carmen inspires children to love PIE - P to Persuade, I to Inform, and E to Entertainl Great Writing is all about PIE and so are the roles authors play in children's lives. She will also share how she turns ideas into books, have one idea leads to the next, great reading buddy traits and why reading is important not just for today or for tomorrow but for the rest of their lives. Books will be available for purchase.
Register here: https://houstonlibrary.libcal.com/event/9531426
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Kashmere Gardens Branch Houston Public Library, 5411 Pardee St,Houston,TX,United States
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