We are excited to announce our Keynote speakers! Join us on May 18th to hear these authors and artists share insights into their forthcoming titles. 9:30 - 10:00 AM ET | Opening Keynote: The Ambassadors Award-winning authors and National Ambassadors for Young People's Literature Meg Medina, Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass (Candlewick) and Jacqueline Woodson, Remember Us (Penguin Young Readers) discuss their books, their visions and platforms, and the opportunities presented by the distinguished role. | 12:20 - 12:50 PM ET | Lunch Keynote: The Search for Home Luma Mufleh, From Here (Penguin Young Readers) and Thien Pham, Family Style (Macmillan Children’s), who have experienced life as refugees, discuss their search for home and the meaning of belonging in these forthcoming young adult memoirs. | 5:30 - 6:00 PM ET | ¡Vamos! Let's Go on a Tour of Raúl the Third's Studio Join three-time Pura Belpré Award-winning, author-illustrator of the World of ¡Vamos! series, Raúl the Third, in his studio as he discusses his career, creative process, characters, and the forthcoming ¡Vamos! Let's Go Read (HarperCollins Children’s). | Know someone who would love this event? Forward this email and invite them to join us! | Can't attend this Spring's SLJ Day of Dialog? Click here to be unsubscribed from any 2023 Spring SJ DOD communication. | |