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Thursday, October 6 • 10:00am - 12:15pm
Kidquake: Early Elementary School Program

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Join acclaimed children’s book authors, illustrators, poets, and workshop leaders for a morning of readings, discussion, and special workshops designed to help fuel the imagination of kids from kindergarten to 2nd grade. Book sales and signing to follow. Free for school groups, teachers must enroll in advance at litquake.org/kidquake. FREE

Participants
avatar for Isabel Campoy

Isabel Campoy

President, Transformative Education Institute
F. ISABEL CAMPOY is the author of numerous children’s books in the areas of poetry, theatre, stories, biographies, and art. As a researcher she has published extensively bringing to the curriculum an awareness of the richness of the Hispanic culture. She is an educator specialized... Read More →
avatar for Katrina Goldsaito

Katrina Goldsaito

Author, Little, Brown and Company
avatar for Florencia Milito

Florencia Milito

Born in Argentina, Florencia Milito spent her early childhood in Venezuela and has lived in the U.S. since she was nine. She is a bilingual poet, essayist, and translator whose work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in ZYZZYVA; Indiana Review; Catamaran; Entremares; Digging through... Read More →
avatar for Gwen Minor

Gwen Minor

Gwen Minor (Read Aloud Plays: The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid, Scholastic), has been profiled on NPR and her podcasts have a world-wide following. A teacher and writer specializing in Shakespeare and ancient epic, she's also been a literary events coordinator, a freelance columnist... Read More →
avatar for Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Maggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco and a tendency to spill things. As a longtime children's bookseller she has read her fair share of stories, and she is always hungry for more. Her favorite animal is an octopus, or else an elephant.


Thursday October 6, 2016 10:00am - 12:15pm PDT
Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Public Library