Posts by Arielle Landau

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Sharon Draperon August 15, 2006. 

Summer Reading: Today, it is our pleasure to welcome Sharon Draper to our final "Books A Treasure!" chat for this summer. Sharon has been recognized nationally as both an outstanding educator and writer. As an educator she has been honored as National Teacher of the Year among many other awards. As a writer her honors include the Coretta Scott King Award and the Parents Choice Award. Her books have appeared on the American Library Association's Best Books for Young 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Kate DiCamillo on August 3, 2006. 

summer_reading: Good afternoon, and welcome to our live author chat. Today's special guest is Kate DiCamillo. 2001 was a special year for Kate. Her first book for teens, Tiger Rising, was a National Book Award finalist. Her first book for children, Because 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Meg Cabot on August 25, 2005. 

NYPL: It is our pleasure to welcome Meg Cabot to our first Summer Reading Chat of 2005. Meg is a #1 New York Times best-selling author. She has written over thirty books for young people, including the wildly successful Princess Diaries, which were recently made into two movies by Disney. The Lifetime network currently broadcasts a series based upon Meg's

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Walter Dean Myers on  July 29, 2004. 

NYPL: This afternoon our guest is Walter Dean Myers. Walter is the winner of several Newbery Honors and Coretta Scott King awards. His books regularly appear on "best books" lists of the American Library Association. His writings include: Hoops, Slam!, Motown and Didi,

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Steven Torres on June 30, 2004.

NYPL: Our guest today is Steven Torres, the author of the Precinct Puerto Rico mystery series featuring Luis Gonzalo, the sheriff of Angustias, a fictionalized small town in the heart of Puerto Rico. Library Journal said of Steven's second book: "A welcome second helping of crazy characters, unique situations, and an unusual protagonist." NYPL: 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Tony Medina on April 30, 2004. 

NYPL: Our guest today is teacher, poet, writer and activist Tony Medina. Writer's Digest says Tony is one of the top ten poets to watch in the new millennium, and we agree. Tony, can you tell us a little bit about growing up in the Bronx?

funkycoldmedina: Growing up in the Bronx was a great experience. From the craziness of the South Bronx to the Throgs Neck Housing Projects it was a great communal experience. It was when neighborhoods were truly neighborhoods and 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Michele Serros on April 23, 2004. 

NYPL: We're chatting this morning with Michele Serros, award-winning poet and commentator for National Public Radio (Morning Edition, Weekend All Things Considered). Serros' collection of fiction, How to be a Chicana Role Model: A Novel, (Riverhead Books) was published in July 2000, and instantly reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Regie Cabico on April 16, 2004. 

NYPL: We're so lucky to have Regie Cabico here with us today as our first guest poet for the online poetry chats. Regie is well-known in the New York City area for his work as a slam poet and a standup comic. He has done it all. He won the 1993 New York Poetry Slam. He has published chapbooks and an anthology, including The Petting Zoo, I Saw Your Ex-Lover Behind the Starbucks Counter and Poetry Nation: An Anthology of North American Spoken Word and Written Poetry. His poetry 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Mary Pope Osborne on August 6, 2003. 

NYPL: Welcome to the last of our live author chats for the summer. We hope you have been sending in questions and listening to all the programs. If you missed any, remember you can read the transcripts of the talks on our web page.

NYPL: Today our guest is Mary Pope Osborne. She is a woman who loves adventure. She loves reading about it, writing about it, and living it. Mary, how do you decide where Jack and Annie in the

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Sharon Creech on August 14, 2002. 

Journeys are important in Sharon Creech's stories. In Walk Two Moons, Sal and her grandparents travel across the United States in search of her mother. In The Wanderer, Sophie sails across the Atlantic 

This is a transcript of live IM chat with author Sharon G. Flake on July 18, 2002. 

Sharon G. Flake is the author of The Skin I'm In (the 1999 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Authors winner) and Money Hungry (a 2002 Coretta Scott King Honor book).

For an hour Sharon was online answering questions from over 100 of her loyal fans. Thank you, Sharon!

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