{"id":6997,"date":"2012-06-15T11:15:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=6997"},"modified":"2021-12-09T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T01:25:52","slug":"conference-celebrates-childrens-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/06\/15\/conference-celebrates-childrens-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference celebrates children\u2019s literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_7406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7406\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/clconf.jpg\" alt=\"drawing of a child riding a dragon\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/clconf.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/clconf-260x179.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where Pictures Speak and Stories Paint is the theme for the Sixteenth Biennial Conference on Literature and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>7#8217;s Children<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Where Pictures Speak and Stories Paint is the theme for the Sixteenth Biennial Conference on Literature and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8217;s Children, June 21&#8211;23 at Chaminade University. The event is co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa English department<\/a>, Children&#8217;s Literature <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and Chaminade University. This free conference is a three-day celebration for parents, teachers, librarians, writers and illustrators and others interested in children&#8217;s literature.<\/p>\n<p>The conference consists of three topics of presentations and discussions.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"clear-photo\">\n<li>Interpreting Literature emphasizes different ways of reading children&#8217;s literature.<\/li>\n<li>Using Literature provides activities to use with children at home, at school or at the library.<\/li>\n<li>Creating Literature helps you produce and publish your own work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Special guests<\/h2>\n<p>Pam Mu&#241;oz Ryan<br \/>\nPam Mu&#241;oz Ryan has written more than 30 books for children, including juvenile and young adult fiction, picture books, non-fiction and biography. Her novels include <em>Esperanza Rising<\/em>, based on the story of Ryan&#8217;s own grandmother&#8217;s immigration from Mexico to California in the 1930s and, most recently, <em>The Dreamer<\/em>, a fictionalized retelling of the childhood of noted Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.<\/p>\n<p>James Rumford<br \/>\nFrom his studio in M&#038;#257noa Valley, James Rumford writes and illustrates stories inspired by his direct experience of life in Afghanistan, Chad, Rwanda and Saudi Arabia. Rumford&#8217;s 19 picture books transport readers to worlds as wide-ranging as fifteenth-century China, ancient Greece and modern-day Baghdad. His Pacific navigation story <em>Island Below the Star<\/em> was named one of the best children&#8217;s books of 1998 by a New York Times critic.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensliteraturehawaii.org\/Childrens_Literature_Hawaii\/2012_Biennial_Conference.html\">Children&#8217;s Literature <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s English department sponsors the Conference on Literature and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8217;s Children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[342,1466,9],"class_list":["post-6997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-english","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152936,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions\/152936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}