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Strand: Books for Older Readers Franny has written one picture book, Big Bad Bunny, but otherwise writes middle-grade and young-adult fantasies. Her most recent novel is Chime. She’d like to write more picture books because they consist of so few words, but that's also the poblem: the words are so few, she can never find them. She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in the Chicago area. |
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Strand: Books for Younger Readers David has been awarded the Caldecott Medal three times — for Tuesday in 1992, The Three Pigs in 2002, and Flotsam in 2006. Two other books of his, Sector 7 and Free Fall, were named Caldecott Honor Books. Among other honors, Wiesner holds the Japan Picture Book Award for Tuesday, the French Prix Sorcières for The Three Pigs, and a New York Times Ten Best Illustrated award for Flotsam. David was the United States nominee, and a finalist, for the 2008 Han Christian Andersen Award. Recently, he has taught at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. |
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Strand: Editor Sessions David is the Publisher & Editorial Director of Scholastic Press, where he edits numerous wonderful authors. To list just a few of them would feel wrong. He is also the author of over a dozen novels (some by himself, some with other people). To list just a few of them would feel wrong. |
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Thursday Night Speaker Alan is the former head of the Circle in the Square/NYU TISCH undergraduate program and currently teaches at Circle. He has directed off-Broadway, headed the intern program at Williamstown Theater Festival, and acted off-Broadway in the original production of The Fantasticks. Former students include Philip Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, Idina Menzel, Benicio del Toro, and Molly Shannon. |