Young Readers Festival - South Dakota Humanities Council

YOUNG READERS
FESTIVAL EVENTS
For general inquiries about the Young Readers Festival, call Jennifer
Widman, Director of the South Dakota Center for the Book, (605)
688-5715. To schedule class visits, call the Washington Pavilion, (605)
367-6000 or the Children’s Museum of South Dakota, (605) 692-6700.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21
5:30-6:30 p.m. – Whittier Middle School Auditorium, Sioux Falls –
Booking Up Our Kids – Rosemary Wells
THURSDAY, Sept. 22
Events in grid below take place in Sioux Falls.
Washington Pavilion
Belbas
Theater
Schulte Black
Box Theater
Science Stage
10 –
10:45
am
I'm Not Kidding: Stories &
Songs - Barry
Louis Polisar
Stubby the War
Dog & His Favorite
Doughboy - Ann
Bausum
Drawing Slimy
Space Slugs and
Other Creatures Mike Lowery
11 –
11:45
am
I'm Not Kidding: Stories &
Songs - Barry
Louis Polisar
Fascinating Facts:
Researching and
Writing Books William Anderson
Creating the
Monster Who Ate
the State - Chris
Browne
Labor Fights, Civil
Rights and the
Death of Martin
Luther King - Ann
Bausum
Drawing Slimy
Space Slugs and
Other Creatures Mike Lowery
Fascinating Facts:
Researching and
Writing Books William Anderson
Creating the
Monster Who Ate
the State - Chris
Browne
12:30 –
1:15 pm
1:30 –
2:15 pm
Siouxland Public
Libraries
Jerstad
Gallery
Tribal Art
Gallery
Ronning
Branch
How the Pioneers Tamed
the Prairie Ken Alvine
Starry Skies: The
Lakota Way of
Seeing the Night
- S.D. Nelson
How Process
Leads to
Picture Books
- Katherine
Hannigan
Making History Fun with
Capitol Cat &
Watch Dog Janice Law
I Am a Man:
Standing Bear
of the Ponca Virginia Driving
Hawk Sneve
Magnolia
Says DON'T Elise Parsley
Starry Skies: The
Lakota Way of
Seeing the Night
- S.D. Nelson
Writing +
Drawing = Stories - Katherine
Hannigan
Downtown
Library
FRIDAY, Sept. 23
Events in grid below take
place in Brookings.
Children’s
Museum of South Dakota
Party on Two
Community Room
Stubby the War Dog &
10 – 10:45 Fascinating Facts:
Researching
and
WritHis Favorite Doughboy
am
ing Books - William
Anderson
- Ann Bausum
11 – 11:45 I Am a Man: Standing
Bear of the Ponca am
Virginia Driving Hawk
Sneve
Party on One
Creating The Monster
Who Ate the State Chris Browne
Magnolia Says DON'T - How the Pioneers
Elise Parsley
Tamed the Prairie Ken Alvine
12:30 –
1:15 pm
Fascinating Facts:
Researching and Writing Books - William
Anderson
I'm Not Kidding: Stories Creating The Monster
& Songs - Barry Louis
Who Ate the State Polisar
Chris Browne
1:30 –
2:15 pm
Starry Skies: The
Lakota Way of Seeing the Night - S.D.
Nelson
How Process Leads
to Pictures - Katherine
Hannigan
How the Pioneers
Tamed the Prairie Ken Alvine
Free parking is available across the street from the Children’s Museum
entrance and along Fifth Ave. and Fifth St., north of the Museum.
FRIDAY SPECIAL EVENTS
4-5 p.m. – Children’s Museum of South Dakota Community Room, Brookings – Young
Readers One Book Keynote – Jennifer Richard Jacobson
How the Pioneers
Tamed the Prairie
- Ken Alvine
I'm Not Kidding:
Stories & Songs
- Barry Louis
Polisar
TUESDAY, Sept. 27
5:30 p.m. – Rapid City Public Library – Young Readers One Book Keynote –
Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Young Readers One Book
4:30-5:30 p.m. – Washington Pavilion Mary W. Sommervold Hall,
Sioux Falls – Young Readers One Book Keynote – Jennifer Richard
Jacobson and Ted Kooser
The South Dakota Humanities Council distributed 5,000 copies of Jennifer
Richard Jacobson’s Andy Shane and Dolores Starbuckle four-in-one book series to this fall’s third-grade students across South
Dakota in advance of the 2016 Young Readers
South Dakota Festival of Books.
5:30-6:30 p.m. – Children’s Museum of South Dakota Community
Room, Brookings – Booking Up Our Kids – Rosemary Wells
Students from the following school districts received copies of the book:
THURSDAY SPECIAL EVENTS
• Brookings
• Canton
• Deubrook Area
• Milbank
• Pipestone (MN)
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• Rapid City
• Sioux Falls
• Vermillion
• Watertown
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