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"Clifford," the popular children's book character created
by Norman Bridwell,
entertained attendees at November's Connecticut Book
Fair.
Annual Bookfair Attracts Authors, Illustrators and Their Fans
Nearly 2,000 children and adults attended the seventh annual Connecticut Bookfair: Celebrating Children and the Books They Read, held November 14-15 and sponsored by the Dodd Center and the UConn Co-op. Weekend activities included presentations by fourteen author/illustrators: Natalie Babbitt, Moira Fain, Leonard Everett Fisher, James How, Trina Schart Hyman, E.B. Lewis, Raouf Mama, Emily Arnold McCully, Michael McCurdy, Candice Ransom, and Jane Yolen. Puppet workshops, story-reading and book autograph sessions filled out the schedule.
A special highlight of the weekend was a dinner to honor Norman Stevens, director emeritus of the UConn Libraries. He was acknowledged for his leadership in establishing and building the Northeast Children's Literature Collection at the Dodd Research Center and for his continuing efforts as director of volunteers at the Center.
Prior to the the Bookfair more than 100 teachers attended the second Annual Connecticut Bookfair Teachers' Conference, co-sponsored by the UConn School of Educaton and the Dodd Center. Conference attendees heard outstanding talks by reading specialist and professor Bernice Cullinan, lecturer and storyteller Carol Otis Hurst, and authors Jane Yolen and Leonard Everett Fisher.
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