by Ellen E.M. RobertsEditor-in-Chief
Where Books Begin
Ellen E. M. Roberts, editor-in-chief of Where Books Begin, will be appearaing at Paichai University in Daejeon, South Korea on September 24, 2011. Sponsored by the Korea Association of Children's Literature & Education (KACL&E) this special conference will be about Writing & Publishing the Children's Picture Book.
Ellen’s book THE CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK: How To Write It, How to Sell It, was first published in Korea in 2002. It is very popular there. Her lecture topic will be PUBLISING BOOKS FOR BETTER BRAINS: How Picture Books Help Children Learn to Read, Write and Think.
She will discuss picture books for children from birth to age 9, as well as illustrarted books for teenagers, including telenovelas, magna, graphic novels and comic books. Her focus will be on the interplay of visual images and aural signals in integrating the child’s embrace of a story.
This important event will be co-hosted by International Board on Korean Committee Books for Young People (KBBY) and will take place on September 24, 2011.
For further information about the conference, contact:
Keumhee Kim, Ph. D.
Dept. of Child Studies
Korea Nazarene University
Ssangyongdong 456
CheonAn, ChoongNam
South Korea
330-718
khkim@kornu.ac.kr
