KidLit Con 2016!

Kristi's Book Nook is going to KidLit Con 2016!!

It's not too late to get your early bird purchase in. You have until 9/17/16.
Don't miss out on this great experience.



This year’s theme is Gatekeepers and Keymasters: Connecting bloggers, librarians, teachers, authors, and parents to promote literacy.

Here’s where this theme came from:
At every KidLitCon, some of the most lively discussions involve the idea of “gatekeepers”—the grown ups who write, review, sell, and buy children’s books for kids and teens. How do we, the grown ups (mostly) writing our on-line reviews and promoting books in the field, assess what books are good fits for which kids? And how do we contribute to the process of getting those books to the kids? We hope to discuss the whole idea of “gatekeeping” itself as a role, with those involved not authoritarian abstractions but book-moving engineers—road pavers and bridge builders. How does an individual (reviewer, agent, editor, translator, teacher, parent, librarian bookseller), or group within the industry shape the world of kid’s books, and how can opening this circle to new cultures and voices potentially reshape it?
Topics we want to talk more about include gender (such as the idea that there are girl books vs boy books), diverse books (identifying, evaluating and promoting), the concept of “age-appropriateness” and the perennial question of connecting with audiences so that the words we put on-line are useful!
Learn more about the conference and the program HERE.

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