Meet the Expert Interviews
Interviews by the Friends of the CCBC
The Friends of the CCBC newsletter often features original interviews
with authors and illustrators whose work has intersected with that
of the Cooperative Children's Book Center. The interviews were begun
by Tana Elias, editor of the newsletter from
1996 to 2001. Since 2001, newsletter editors Amy Brandt, Geri Ceci
Cupery, Andrea Maxworthy
O'Brien,
Andrea Schmitz, and Bridget Zinn have all conducted interviews, as
has 2004-2005 Friends board president Meg (Kavanagh) Rothstein. The
Friends
of the
CCBC Board and the interviewers have generously granted permission
to reprint the interviews here on the CCBC web site.
Kate
Banks : author and winner of the 2001 Charlotte
Zolotow Award for The Night Worker
Anthony
Browne: British illustrator and winner of the 2000 Hans Christian
Andersen Medal, who delivered a public lecture in Madison on Tuesday,
November 14, 2000.
Michael
Bryant: children's book illustrator who gave a public lecture
for the Friends of the CCBC on November 10, 1997. Michael first came
to Madison as a promising young illustrator who had won a scholarship
to attend the Multicolored Mirror conference in 1991.
Deborah Ellis: author of The Breadwinner trilogoy about the plight of Afghanis under the Taliban and other children books that illuminate current events around the world. She spoke in Madison at the annual International Children's Literature conference in November, 2004.
Sarah
Ellis: author, critic and librarian from Vancouver, B.C., Canada,
who delivered the keynote speech at the USBBY conference Points of
View in Madison, October 8, 1999, in Madison, Wisconsin.
Jean
Craighead George: Newbery-award winning author of Julie of
the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain, and many other distinguished books
about the natural world, who delivered the Third Annual Charlotte
Zolotow Lecture on September 27, 2000.
Robie Harris: author of the groundbreaking books It's
Perfectly Normal and It's So Amazing who spoke in Madison at a workshop for teachers
on October 17, 2000.
Kevin Henkes: author
and illustrator of many highly regarded picture books and novels.
Received the 2005 Caldecott Award and the 2005 Charlotte Zolotow
Award for Kitten's
First Full Moon.
Kathleen T. Horning:
coordinator of special collections at the Cooperative Children's
Book Center. In 1997 she talked about current trends
in children's book publishing, as well as her new book, From
Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books (HarperCollins,
1997).
Margaret Jensen:
former first/second grade teacher at Huegel Elementary School in
Madison, Wisconsin, and currently a math resource teacher for the
Madison Metropolitan School District. Early in 1999 Margaret talked
to Tana about how she helps adults understand
how
children
learn
to
read,
as well as how she evaluates trade books for beginning readers.
Angela Johnson:
author of the Coretta Scott King and Printz-award winning novel The
First Part Last and many other highly acclaimed novels and picture
books; delivered the 2005 Charlotte Zolotow
Lecture.
Holly Keller: author/ illustrator and winner of the 2003 Charlotte Zolotow Award for Farfallina and Marcel.
De An M. Krey: professor (now retired) of Elementary Social Studies
in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Wisconsin-River
Falls. At
the end of 1997 Tana interviewed her about her upcoming book, Children's
Literature in Social Studies: Teaching to the Standards (NCSS, 1998)
and they talked about children's literature with a social studies
focus.
Ginny Moore Kruse: The former director of the CCBC looks back on the CCBC's history and her distinguished career.
Karla Kuskin: author, artist and poet who delivered the first annual
Charlotte Zolotow lecture on the University of Wisconsin campus on
October 1, 1998.
Gregory Maguire: author and critic who delivered a public lecture
co-sponsored by the Friends of the CCBC and the Madison Area Reading
Council on Tuesday, November 13, 2001.
Beverley Naidoo: author of novels for children and young adults that
deal with issues of race, class, and social justice, including Journey
to Jo’Burg,
The Other Side of Truth, and Web of Lies.
.
Marilyn Nelson: acclaimed poet and author of Carver: A Life in
Poems, A Wreath for Emmett Till and Fortune's Bone's,
among other books.
Naomi Shihab Nye: poet and author who delivered the Sixth Charlotte Zolotow lecture on October 4, 2003
Mary Ann Rodman: author and winner of the 2006 Charlotte
Zolotow Award for My Best Friend
Megan Schliesman:
librarian at the Cooperative Children's Book Center who discussed
her observations about current trends in poetry for
children and young adults in the spring of 1999.
Amy Schwartz: author and artist who won the 2004 Charlotte Zolotow Award for What James Likes Best
Peter Sís: author/illustrator who was an Arts Institute Interdisciplinary
Artist in Residence at the UW-Madison in the summer of 2001.
Margaret Willey: author and winner of the 2002 Charlotte
Zolotow Award for Clever Beatrice
