You know WHO's at the Newbury / Caldecott banquet?

... And me! #ala10

ALA 2010 Saturday Highlights

1) Meeting and signing books with the wonderful Henry Cole (and getting to hold the giant Chicken Butt! doll)
2) No wonder Lauren Myracle relates so well to tweens... She's secretly 10 and a half!
3) Daniel Kirk and Library Mouse (who reminds me of someone I know)
4) Nelda Chang, queen of the boom mike, at the First Book Shameless Promotion Chamber.

Uh, thanks, kids.

See You at ALA 2010!

Real quick, here are my ALA plans:

Friday, 6/25 Kidlit Drinks Night

Saturday, 6/26 10 a.m. signing that "charmer" of a book (Kirkus!), DOTTY, at the Abrams booth (#2732) and CHICKEN BUTT! too, with Henry Cole!

Saturday - Sunday, 6/26-6/27 Hanging out with some of my favorite authors, all of whom seem to be shamelessly promoting First Book (seems to be a trend...)

Sunday, 6/27  Attending the Newbury/Caldecott banquet with Abrams

Monday, 6/28 Lunch with my wonderful editor at Knopf, Erin Clarke (and collapsing with exhaustion)

and then

Tuesday - Wednesday 6/29-6/30 Presenting at the 25th Annual Shenandoah Children's Literature Conference, along with some fabulous authors and illustrators like Katherine Paterson, David Wiesner, Deborah Wiles, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Henry Cole, Blue Balliett and more!

Happy Father's Day

To all my favorite dads (including my baby bro, Sasha, who is not shown here because I can't find a photo of him on my Iphone). Especially Mike, who is driving us up a mountain as I post this!