March Into Reading! A Celebration of Children's Books
Click here for the March into Reading! 2008 Photo Gallery.
Events
Friday February 27, 2009
Authors and Illustrators visit 20 ACE Elementary & Middle Schools
Saturday February 28, 2009
9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
O'Hare Academic Center, Salve Regina University
Free & Open to the Public
- Author and Illustrator Presentations
- Book Sales and Signing
- Children's Activity Rooms
- Family Information Centers
Guest Authors and Illustrators
- David Macaulay, The New Way Things Work & The Way We Work
- Tony O'Brien, Afghan Dreams: Young Voices of Afghanistan
- Linda Crotta Brennan, The Black Regiment of the American Revolution
- John Brennan, Ghosts of Newport
- Mary Jane Begin, R is for Rhode Island Red
- Michael Dooling Anne Hutchinson's Way
- Jeannine Atkins Anne Hutchinson's Way
- Lucinda Landon American History Mysteries
- Janet Lisle Black Duck
Sponsors
- Target
- People's Credit Union
- The Hamilton Family Foundation
- The Newport Public Education Foundation
- The Newport Daily News
- Island Books
- Salve Regina University
If you would like to support March into Reading! call Melissa Davis (401) 341-2457.
Committee Members
- Christine Bagley, Curriculum Librarian the Janet L. Robinson Curriculum Resource Center, McKillop Library, SRU
- Kitty Rok, Professional Lecturer & ACE Coordinator Department or Education, SRU
- Lissa Fernandez, Professional Lecturer, Department of Education, SRU
- Melissa Davis, Academic Grants Officer, SRU
- Stacey Lyons, Underwood School Librarian , Newport Public Schools
- Lisa Olaynack, Thompson Middle School Teacher, Newport Public Schools
- Murry Edwards, St. Michael's Country Day School School Librarian, Newport
- Renee Kaminitz, Aquidneck School Librarian , Middletown Public Schools
- Judy Knowles, Pennfield School Librarian, Portsmouth
- Chyleene O'Connor, Gaudet Middle School Teacher, Middletown
- Gloria Schmidt, Elmhurst School Librarian retired, Portsmouth
- Judy Crosby, Island Books, proprietor, Middletown
- Jeanne Staats, St. Philomena School, Portsmouth
- Beth Gorter, Elmhurst School Librarian