Children's Literature Network event

Exploring Fantasy Literature after Harry Potter Changed the World

Three fantasy experts provide four hours of insight, hands-on experience, and applications for fantasy literature in the classroom, in your library, and in your own writing.

Whether you love to read fantasy, don't understand what kids find so fascinating, you'd like to include it in your lesson plans, or you're hoping to write the next blockbuster fantasy novel, you'll be glad you attended this workshop. If you come for no other reason, these three are good speakers:

Gerald Morris, author of The Quest for the Fair Unknown, and The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung Cart Knight, and The Squire's Tale, among many others, speaks on "Still Using Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fantasy."

Laura Williams McCaffrey, author of Alia Waking and The Water Shaper, leads a hands-on workshop in "Building Fantasy Worlds."

Vicki Palmquist, children's literature enthusiast, gives a booktalk on "Before and After Harry ... Keep Them Reading."

Pat Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind and a children's literature instructor at the University of Wisconsin, will be the Innkeeper for our Feast of the Boar's Head in Café Europa. Guests! Partake of the Feast!

Forsooth, we can't imagine a more stimulating learning session for those who are curious and those who can't get enough. Hie thee to the Workshop!

Complete session descriptions, the schedule, and more available here. Print out this PDF form and hand it to colleagues with carefree abandon. Details of this event have been sent to all CLN members via e-mail.

Who should attend: teachers, writers, librarians, children's literature enthusiasts

CEUs available: Four (4) reading credits are available for educators.

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The cost is $80 for CLN members and $130 for non-members.

Children's Literature Network, held at the Plymouth Radisson, 3131 Campus Drive, Plymouth, MN

A block of discounted hotel rooms has been set aside at the Plymouth Radisson under Children's Literature Network for out-of-town attendees.