Susanna Reich, Children's Book Author: Author Events
Children's Book Author
SUSANNA REICH
Susanna Reich Appearance Schedule
2019
Saturday, October 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Chappaqua Children's Book Festival
Bell Middle School
20 S. Greeley Avenue
Chappaqua, NY
Susanna will be signing books, speaking on a panel, and interviewing author/illustrator Marisabina Russo and authors Veera Hiranandani and Krystyna Poray Goddu for KidLit TV.
Saturday, June 9
Annual Conference, Children's Writers of the Hudson Valley Conference
Hampton Inn & Suites
Poughkeepsie, NY
Susanna and Gary gave a presentation on writing biography for kids and teens.
Saturday, May 19
Annual Conference, School Library Media Specialists of Southeastern New York (SLMSSNY)
HNA Palisades Premier Conference Center
Palisades, NY
Susanna was presented with the Rip Van Winkle Award for Outstanding Contributions to Children's Literature.
Susanna accepts the Rip Van Winkle Award from SLMSSNY Awards Chair Dara Berkwits.
Shari McNair, President of SLMSSNY (left), congratulates Susanna on her award.
In her acceptance speech, Susanna praised librarians as the guardians and disseminators of story, and hailed the power of books to foster empathy and help children navigate life's challenges.
Friday, May 4 Desmond-Fish Library Associates Award Dinner
The Factoria at Charles Point
5 John Walsh Blvd
Peekskill, NY
Susanna and her husband, Gary Golio, were presented with the Alice Curtis Desmond Award for Outstanding Contributions to Children's Literature at the annual gala of the Desmond-Fish Library in Garrison, NY.
Susanna and Gary accept their award.
This is the first time Susanna and Gary have been given a joint award.
Singer-songwriter Dar Williams (center) introduced Susanna and Gary and thanked them for introducing young readers to the connection between music and social justice.
March 18-25
PJ Library Author Israel Adventure
Susanna was one of 20 children's book authors to participate in a week-long trip to Israel sponsored by PJ Library and PJ Our Way. These organizations provide free books that celebrate Jewish values and culture to families with children 6 months through 11 years old. Read Richard Michelson's article about the trip and coverage in the Jerusalem Post.
A group shot at the Yemin Orde high school. The authors also visited a nursery school and met with many Israeli writers.
Susanna participating in an archaeological dig.
Susanna dons a hard hat to enter an active dig under the Old City in Jerusalem.
Among the highlights of the trip was a visit to the Dead Sea Scrolls lab, where the group saw scroll fragments up close.
2017
Saturday, October 14, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Chappaqua Children's Book Festival
Bell Middle School
20 S. Greeley Avenue
Chappaqua, NY
Susanna will be signing books all day and participating in a presentation at 1:15 p.m. with other members of iNK (Interesting Nonfiction for Kids), a consortium of award-winning nonfiction authors.
Susanna with husband and fellow author Gary Golio. Photo by Joana Segal.
Members of iNK before they spoke to the crowd about The Nonfiction Minute. From left: Roxie Munro, Susanna, Vicki Cobb, Karen Sterling, Sarah Albee. Photo by Bo Zaunders.
Photo by Lisa Salvadorini.
Photo by Bo Zaunders.
Susanna and Gary with fans. Photo by Joana Segal.
Photo by Bo Zaunders.
Saturday, September 23, 1-2 p.m. Baltimore Book Festival
Enoch Pratt Free Library Children's Stage
Baltimore Inner Harbor
Baltimore, MD
Susanna Reich and Gary Golio share the stage to talk about their new picture books, Stand Up and Sing! Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice, and Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song, followed by a singalong and booksigning.
Saturday, 4/29 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Independent
Bookstore Day Storytime and Booksigning Family Event
Teaching children the power of poetry, music, and artistic expression
in difficult times. Susanna Reich and Gary Golio will talk about
their new picture books, Stand Up and Sing! Pete Seeger, Folk
Music and the Path to Justice and Strange Fruit: Billie
Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song. As a complement to the stories, Robert Burke Warren will sing a selection of Pete Seeger's songs and others - singing along is actively encouraged!
Ages 6 and up Oblong
Books
6420 Montgomery St.
Rhinebeck, NY
(845) 876-0500
Friday, 4/21 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Icons: Figures Who Have Inspired Children's Books
From the historical room where it happened to today's graffiti-stained walls, iconic and monumental figures have shaped the roads we live in. What was it about these figures that inspired the creators to expand on the conversation? Hear as the group delves into the importance of living and past figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Red Cloud, Alexander Hamilton, Pete Seeger, and others. With Teri Kanefield, S.D. Nelson,Susanna Reich, Javaka Steptoe and Ben Thompson.
To be followed by booksigning from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Texas Library Association Annual Conference
Henry B. Gonz?lez Convention Center
900 E. Market St.
San Antonio, TX
Saturday, 4/8 2-4 p.m.
Youth Book Festival
With Gary Golio, Irene O'Garden, Jean Marzollo, Susanna Reich, Kimberly Sabatini, Pete Salmansohn & Pat Schories.
Desmond-Fish Library
472 NY-403
Garrison, NY
(845) 424-3020 http://desmondfishlibrary.org/calendar.html
Thursday, 4/6 3:00 p.m.
Lincoln Center Local: Free Screening of Memorial Concert for Pete and Toshi Seeger
Susanna will introduce this 2014 film featuring Tom Chapin, Kim & Reggie Harris, David Amram, Fred Hellerman, Dar Williams, Dan Zane, Mike + Ruthy, Peter Yarrow & more. Book signing to follow.
Chappaqua Library
195 S Greeley Ave.
Chappaqua, NY
(914) 238-4779 https://www.chappaqualibrary.org/events
Saturday, 3/25 2:00 p.m.
The Voracious Reader
Celebrate The Voracious Reader's 10th anniversary with a booktalk and singalong with Susanna Reich and Gary Golio. The authors will talk about and sign their new picture books, Stand Up and Sing! Pete Seeger, Folk Music and the Path to Justice and Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song.
With live music and singalong!
Ages 7 and up The Voracious Reader
1997 Palmer Avenue
Larchmont, NY
(914) 630-4581
Gary Golio, Voracious Reader owner Francine Lucidon and Susanna at the Stand Up and Sing! signing and sing-along.
Friday, 3/24 7:30-9 p.m.
Launch Party for Stand Up and Sing! Pete Seeger, Folk Music and the Path to Justice and Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song.
Join authors Susanna Reich and Gary Golio and illustrator Adam Gustavson at Northern Westchester's favorite indie bookstore to celebrate the publication of these two important and timely picture books. With live music and singalong! The Village Bookstore
10 Washington Avenue
Pleasantville, NY
(914) 769-8322
Illustrator Adam Gustavson, Village Bookstore owner Roy Solomon, Gary Golio and Susanna at the Stand Up and Sing! book launch. signing and sing-along.
Saturday, 3/18 2-4 p.m. The Story Begins: Bringing Children's Books to Life.
Where do stories begin, and how do they come to life? Six children's book creators talk about their books. With Nick Bruel, Gary Golio, Susanna Reich, Mark Siegel, Pat Schories and Ed Young.
Books will be available for a suggested donation. A portion of donation proceeds will benefit The Field Library and Something Good in the World. The Field Library
4 Nelson Avenue
Peekskill, NY
(914) 737-1212
Friday, 3/3 12-3 p.m. KidLit TV Picture Book Read-Aloud
Susanna will read Minette's Feast as part of KidLit TV's celebration of Reading Awareness Month. The event will stream live on KidLit TV's Facebook page.
Susanna reads Minette's Feast live on KidLit TV.
2016
4/10 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Picture Book Panel, Mt. Airy Kids' Literary Festival Big Blue Marble Bookstore
551 Carpenter Lane
Philadelphia, PA
215-844-1870, info@bigbluemarblebooks.com
Free and open to the public.
4/28 2:00 p.m. Dancing with Words and Pictures (Part One) PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling
898 St Nicholas Ave (at 155th Street)
New York City, NY
With Raúl Colón and Susanna Reich
Kids explore the connections between literature, dance, and visual art in this family event celebrating Mexican-American choreographer José Limón with a short film, a presentation by the author and illustrator of the Tomás Rivera Award-winning picture book José! Born to Dance, and an art-making workshop.
Co-presented with the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, the José Limón Dance Company, and Sugar Hill Museum of Art & Storytelling.
Free. Ages 5-9.
Signing at the Chappaqua Children's Book Festival.
Susanna shared a table with her husband, children's book author Gary Golio, shown here with a few of the 7,000 attendees.
9/26 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Tomas Rivera Award 20th Anniversary Literature Fair
Book Parade, Readings, Performances, Music, Hands-on activities
Susanna will be in San Marcos, Texas, this fall to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award. Susanna's picture book, Jose! Born to Dance won the award in 2006.
San Marcos Public Library and San Marcos Activity Center
San Marcos, TX
All ages. Free and open to the public.
The day began with an incantation and a parade with thousands of schoolchildren.
Susanna and Raúl Colón. Each Rivera Award-winning author and illustrator carried a giant poster of their books cover.
Guadalupe Garcia McCall and Amada Irma Perez.
Amada Irma Perez, Alex Sanchez, Susan Goldman Rubin.
Author talks and performances took place all day in the San Marcos library.
The girls in this traditional folk dance group wore brightly-colored dresses.
The boys wore white shirts, jeans, cowboy hats, and boots.
Rivera Award winners, 2006-2016. From left: Magaly Morales, Susanna, Yuyi Morales, Guadalupe Garcia-McCall, Raúl Colón, Duncan Tonatiuh, Amada Irma Perez, Isabel Quintero, Alex Sanchez, Susan Goldman Rubin.
9/25 8:45 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award Conference
Keynote presentations by Rosie Castro and Juan Felipe Herrera and panel discussions, performances and special events with Rivera Award-winning authors and illustrators Raúl Colón, Winifred Conkling, Isabel Quintero, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Magaly Morales, Yuyi Morales, Amada Irma Perez, Susanna Reich, Susan Goldman Rubin, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Alex Sanchez, Duncan Tonatiuh and Carmen Tafolla. Also an anniversary party and dance featuring music by five-time Grammy-Award winner Little Joe & La Familia!
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX
Register here.
Texas Poet Laureate Carmen Tafolla opened the conference.
Carmen, Susanna, and José! Born to Dance illustrator Raúl Colón with paletas.
Rivera Award winners Carmen Tafolla, Magaly Morales, Guadalupe Garcia McCall and Yuyi Morales.
Texas State San Marcos' Merge Dance Company performed an original dance inspired by a Tomás Rivera poem.
Raúl with U.S. Poet Laureate and Rivera Award winner Juan Felipe Herrera.
The Texas State San Marcos mariachi band entertained Rivera Award winners and conference attendees at lunch.
9/19 3:00 p.m. Fab Four Friends Launch Event The Voracious Reader
1997 Palmer Ave, Larchmont, NY 10538
(914) 630-4581
Book talk, book signing, and Beatles music with author Susanna Reich!
All ages. Free and open to the public.
Signing at The Voracious Reader.
Susanna with a young fan.
Talking about the Beatles.
Reading from Fab Four Friends.
9/18 7:00 p.m. Fab Four Friends Launch Event The Village Bookstore
10 Washington Ave.
Pleasantville, NY 10570
(914) 769-8322
Book talk, book signing, refreshments, and Beatles music with author Susanna Reich and illustrator Adam Gustavson!
All ages. Free and open to the public.
Susanna and illustrator Adam Gustavson talk about Fab Four Friends.
Adam showed original art from the book.
Susanna and Adam led a singalong of Beatles songs.
Talking to fans.
Getting into the 60s mood.
9/12 11:00 a.m. Story Hour with Fab Four Friends author Susanna Reich Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton St. (at S. Portland)
Brooklyn, NY
Book talk, book signing, and Beatles music!
(718) 246-0200
5/30 10:00-10:45 a.m. "Picture the Past" - Children's Book Panel
Millbrook Literary Festival
3 Friendly Lane
Millbrook, NY http://www.millbrookbookfestival.org
Susanna spoke on a nonfiction picture book panel with (from right) Doreen Rappaport, Gary Golio and Catherine Ciocchi.
4/16 2-3:50 p.m. I Met Them at the Library: Picture Book Biography Magic
A panel with Chris Barton, Gary Golio, Susanna Reich and Don Tate
Texas Library Association Annual Conference
Austin Convention Center
Austin, TX
Susanna with fellow Picture Book Biography panelists Don Tate and Gary Golio (not pictured: Chris Barton).
Susanna spoke about her forthcoming Beatles book, then posed with a giant guitar on Congress St. in Austin.
Susanna and fellow children's book authors Gary Golio, Jennifer Ziegler and Chris Barton signed stock at Austin's fantastic indie bookstore, Bookpeople.
2014
9/29 PEN Literary Awards
Susanna welcomed the 2014 winners of the PEN/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship and the PEN/Steven Kroll Award for Picture Book Writing to the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony at the New School in NYC.
Susanna with Bil Lepp, winner of the PEN/Steven Kroll Award, and Ame Dyckman, shortlisted author.
Susanna and her husband, children's book author Gary Golio, shared a table.
5/17, 3:00 p.m. Indies First Storytime Day
For this celebration of independent bookstores, Susanna read from her favorite books at: The Voracious Reader
1997 Palmer Ave, Larchmont, NY 10538
(914) 630-4581
5/4, 12:30 p.m. Sex and Violence in Children's Books: Where the Wild Things (really) Are
Susanna introduced this panel, with Sarwat Chadda, Robie Harris, Susan Kuklin, and Niki Walker, moderated by Sharyn November. Watch the video of the entire panel discussion here.
Frederick P. Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square (Third Avenue at 6th Street)
New York, NY
5/3, 3:00-4:30 p.m. How To Write a (Super) Hero
Susanna introduced this conversation between YA fantasy novelists Sarwat Chadda and C.J. Farley.
Subculture
45 Bleecker Street
New York, NY
The PEN World Voices Festival culminates with the annual PEN Literary Gala, held at the American Museum of Natural History. This year PEN honored Twitter CEO Dick Costolo with the new Digital Freedom Award, Toni Morrison presented Salman Rushdie with the Literary Service Award, two members of Pussy Riot spoke about how books kept hope alive while they were in prison, and jailed Uighur writer Ilham Tohti received the Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award, in absentia.
Susanna at the PEN gala with Sarwat Chadda and Liz Levy.
2/22, 4:15-4:45 p.m. Keynote Panel: Banning Books: Where Do We Stand?
With Joan Bertin, Executive Director, National Coalition Against Censorship, Author Ellen Hopkins, and Susanna Reich, Chair, Children's and Young Adult Book Committee, PEN American Center.
Annual SCBWI Winter Conference
Grand Hyatt New York
109 East 42nd Street (at Grand Central Terminal)
New York, NY 10017
(212) 883-1234
Read the official SCBWI conference blog post about Susanna's talk here, and posts about Joan Bertin and Ellen Hopkin's comments here and here.
2013
11/30, 1-3 p.m. Bookselling and Booksigning
On Small Business Saturday, Susanna will take part in Sherman Alexie's Indies First campaign. Authors will be in independent bookstores nationwide, signing books and helping customers choose the best books for their gift lists. The Village Bookstore
10 Washington Ave.
Pleasantville, NY 10570
914-769-8322
Susanna and fellow author Rob Fleder at The Village Bookstore on Small Business Saturday.
5/4 "Children's Literature: Braving Our Endangered World"
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY
Susanna, Chair of the Children's and Young Adult Book Committee of PEN American Center, introduced the children's book panel at the PEN World Voices Festival. Read about the panel in Publishers Weekly and watch a video of the event here.
2012
11/4 "Lives of the Artists" - Presentation and Booksigning Cortlandt School of Performing Arts, 2 p.m.
29 Old Albany Post Road
Croton-on-Hudson, NY
(914)402-2450 www.cortarts.com
Hear award-winning children's book author Susanna Reich and NY Times-bestselling children's book author Gary Golio talk about the fascinating lives of creative geniuses Julia Child, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, José Limón, Bob Dylan and Clara Schumann.
10/29 Educators Appreciation Night, McNally Jackson Books, 5:30 p.m.
52 Prince Street
New York, NY
(212)274-1160 http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/educators-appreciation-night
McNally Jackson welcomes New York City educators to share ideas over food and drinks and meet-and-greet with authors and illustrators. Guests include David Levithan (Every Day), Sophie Blackall (Ivy & Bean), Adele Griffin (All You Never Wanted), Susanna Reich (Minette's Feast), and Michael Buckley (Kel Gilligan's Daredevil Stunt Show).
9/29 Presentation and Booksigning, Baltimore Book Festival, 1 p.m.
Children's Stage
Charles and Centre Streets
Baltimore, MD www.baltimorebookfestival.com
Susanna with a Julia-Child-size whisk.
With fellow authors Gary Golio (left) and Ed Young.
Signing in the Children's Book tent.
Greeting fans.
9/23 Presentation and Booksigning, Brooklyn Book Festival, 2 p.m.
Target Children's Area
Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza
209 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY www.brooklynbookfestival.org
9/15 Children's Book Day, Washington Irving's Sunnyside Presentation, 1:15-1:45 p.m.
Booksigning, 12-2:30 p.m.
3 West Sunnyside Lane, off Route 9
Tarrytown, NY http://www.hudsonvalley.org/events/childrens-book-day
(914) 591-8763
9/1 Story Time Presentation, Booksigning & Children's Activity, 11 a.m.
Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY www.greenlightbookstore.com
(718)246-0200
All photos by Laurel Golio.
Minette's Feast Storytime at Greenlight Bookstore.
A giant whisk for Julia Child.
One of the flower arrangements Susanna designed for Julia Child's 80th birthday.
8/18 Julia Child Celebration and Booksigning, 12-2 p.m.
Books of Wonder
18 West 18th Street
New York, NY www.booksofwonder.com
(212) 989-3270
Susanna at Books of Wonder
June 23-24, 2012 American Library Association Annual Convention
Anaheim Convention Center
Anaheim, CA
6/24 Read Aloud PopTop Stage, 11:30-11:45 a.m.
Susanna reads Minette's Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat
PopTop Stage is located at the end of the 2700 aisle, Anaheim Convention Center
6/23 Cooking Demonstration, 1-2 p.m.
What's Cooking @ALA Cooking Demonstration Stage
Stage is located at the end of the 1600 aisle, Anaheim Convention Center
6/23 Book Buzz Theater, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Featuring The Biggest Picture Books and Middle Grade Novels of 2012
Presented by Abrams/Abrams Appleseed/Amulet Authors
Room 210AB, Anaheim Convention Center
Signing at the Abrams booth.
Susanna demonstrates how to make Julia Child's recipe for Cream of Cucumber Soup.
Children's book authors at the Millbrook Literary Festival (from right): Steven James Petruccio, Susanna Reich, K.L. Going, Peter McCarty, Artie Bennett, Alison Ashley Formento, Susanna Hill.
5/11 Booksigning, 2-3 p.m.
Westchester Library Association Annual Conference
Doubletree Hotel
455 South Broadway
Tarrytown, NY Conference brochure
5/11 Launch Party for Minette's Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat, 7:30 p.m.
Come join the celebration at an independent bookstore as Susanna shares stories about Julia Child and her cat, Minette. Free refreshments, surprise giveaway. Signed books available for purchase.
The Village Bookstore
10 Washington Avenue
Pleasantville, NY
(914) 769-8322
Susanna addresses the crowd before pulling the winning ticket for the surprise giveaways--a one-of-a-kind apron, and French pastries in the shape of a mouse.
Hand-decorated butter cookies with chocolate icing matched the theme of the evening.
Susanna with her husband and fellow children's book author, Gary Golio.
5/9 Official Children's Book Week Event - Afterschool booktalk, reading and signing, 4:15 p.m. The Voracious Reader
1997 Palmer Avenue
Larchmont, NY
(914) 630-4581
Celebrating Children's Book Week and the launch of Minette's Feast with Francine Lucidon, owner of The Voracious Reader.
Susanna reads to a packed house.
Julia and Paul adopt Minette.
Minette sits on Julia's shoulder.
Signing for young fans.
5/5 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature - Children's Rights 5:30-7 p.m.
Watch the video recording here.
Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Sq.
New York, NY Co-sponsored by The Cooper Union, PEN Children's Book Committee, and Polish Cultural Institute
Panel with Arn Chorn-Pond, Debby Dahl Edwardson, Wojtek Jagielski, and Patricia McCormick, moderated by Susanna Reich.
What are the rights of children? What is our responsibility, as citizens of the world, to defend them? A uniquely qualified panel of authors and activists, including Khmer Rouge Genocide survivor Arn Chorn-Pond, discuss the global state of children's rights. Drawing on both scholarship and personal experience, in this "Year of Janusz Korczak," commemorating 70 years since the children's rights pioneer perished at Treblinka with his charges from the Warsaw Ghetto orphanage, the panel will explore the history of the Children's Rights Movement and how past atrocities can inform contemporary advocacy on local, national, and global scales, paying particular attention to ongoing violations in Uganda by the Lord's Resistance Army.
The panelists took questions from the audience.
Susanna introducing the Children's Rights panel at the 2012 PEN World Voices Festival.
Wojtek Jagielski's book The Night Wanderers is about child soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.
Susanna, Polish journalist Wojtek Jagielski and YA novelist Debby Dahl Edwardson, a National Book Award finalist for My Name Is Not Easy, about teens whose native languages were suppressed at boarding school in Alaska.
Human rights activist Arn Chorn-Pond, and YA novelists Debby Dahl Edwardson and Patricia McCormick. McCormick's novel Never Fall Down is based on Chorn-Pond's childhood experiences during the Pol Pot era.
May 1-31 Susanna will be Author-in-Residence for the month of May on ReaderkidZ.com.
4/30 - 5/9 Blog Tour for Minette's Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat Click here for schedule.
2011
11/18 Panel, "Reading the Arts, Writing the Arts," 4:00 p.m.
National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention
Chicago Hilton, Lake Huron Room, Eighth Floor
A panel of award-winning authors will engage teachers in a discussion of how the study of artists? lives can be used to enhance competency in reading, writing, and researching. Short presentations will be followed by a conversation with the audience about arts in the language arts classroom. www.ncte.org
9/25 Booksigning, 2 p.m.
Celebrate Children's Book Day
Washington Irving's Sunnyside
West Sunnyside Lane, off Route 9
Tarrytown, NY
(914) 591-8763 www.hudsonvalley.org
5/7 Hudson Children's Book Festival, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Hudson Junior and Senior High Schools
215 Harry Howard Avenue, Hudson, NY
(518) 828-4360, extension 1112 www.hudsonchildrensbookfestival.com
Susanna and her husband, New York Times bestselling author Gary Golio, celebrated Children's Book Week with a signing at the Hudson Children's Book Festival.
2010
12/11 Galapagos Bookstore Holiday Book Signing, 2-4 p.m.
James Harmon Community Center
44 Main Street
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
(914) 478-2501 http://galapagosbooksstore.com
10/9 October Children's Literary Salon, 2:00 p.m.
Panel discussion with Susanna Reich, Pat Cummings, and Vicki Wittenstein, moderated by Elizabeth Bird
New York Public Library
Children's Center at 42nd Street
42nd Street and 5th Avenue
New York, NY http://tinyurl.com/2drxjv2
From left: Elizabeth Bird, Pat Cummings, Vicki Wittenstein, Susanna Reich
9/24 Writing Matters Series: "The Children's Book Market"
Panel Discussion, 7 p.m.
Watchung Booksellers
54 Fairfield Street
Montclair, NJ 07042
973-744-7177 www.watchungbooksellers.com
9/19 Booksigning, 2 p.m.
Celebrate Children's Book Day
Washington Irving's Sunnyside
West Sunnyside Lane, off Route 9
Tarrytown, NY
(914) 591-8763 www.hudsonvalley.org
Susanna signs Painting the Wild Frontier for a fan.
9/12 Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY www.brooklynbookfestival.org
Susanna joined children's book authors Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Mitali Perkins to record a podcast in the PEN booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Listen here.
6/8 SCBWI Tuesday Professional Series, "Marketing to the Max: Publicity for Children's Book Authors and Illustrators" with Susanna Reich and Melanie Hope Greenberg 7:30-9:30 p.m.
The Anthroposophical Society, New York Branch
138 West 15th Street
New York, NY http://metro.nyscbwi.org/profseries.htm
Melanie Hope Greenberg and Susanna Reich. Photo: Barbara Ehrentreu.
5/11 School Visit, P.S. 46, Brooklyn, NY
4/29 PEN World Voices Festival, "A Gathering of Voices" 7 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Instituto Cervantes
211 East 49th Street
New York, NY www.pen.org
Susanna and Fran Manushkin introduced the 2010 Children's Authors Panel at the PEN World Voices Festival.
Moderator Elizabeth Bird (ctr.) with panelists (l. to r.) Janne Teller, Ed Young, David Almond, and Francisco X. Stork. Photo: PEN American Center/Beowulf Sheehan.
2/8 "Crafting a Career as a Children's or Young Adult Author" 7 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Instituto Cervantes
211 East 49th Street
New York, NY www.pen.org
Susanna and Fran Manushkin introduced the annual public panel of PEN's Children's and Young Adult Authors Committee.
Fran Manushkin, Richard Peck, Marilyn Singer, Brian Floca, Jane O'Connor, David Levithan, Susanna Reich.
2009
9/27 Booksigning
Celebrate Children's Book Day
Washington Irving's Sunnyside
West Sunnyside Lane, off Route 9
Tarrytown, NY
(914) 591-8763 www.hudsonvalley.org
9/13 Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn, NY
Susanna welcomes YA authors Libba Bray and Nick Burd to the PEN booth for a taped conversation to be posted at www.pen.org.
Author-illustrators Melanie Hope Greenberg and Grace Lin, and author Susanna Reich at the Brooklyn Book Festival.
5/29 Book Expo America (BEA), 3-4 pm
Meet Susanna in the PEN booth (#4306) at Book Expo America (BEA) at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC on Friday, May 29. Susanna has joined the Board of Trustees of PEN, an organization of writers working to advance literature, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship. Visit www.pen.org.
4/27 - 5/3 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
Susanna will be introducing the children's and young adult writers' panels at the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, which this year welcomes 160 writers from around the globe to New York City for panels, readings, performances and public conversations on the theme of Evolution/Revolution. Panelists include Neil Gaiman, Mariken Jongman, Shaun Tan, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Mary Ann Hoberman, Francine Prose, Vera B. Williams, Vicki Cobb, Tijs Goldschmidt, and Deborah Heiligman. For details visit www.pen.org.
All dressed up for the PEN Literary Gala at the Museum of Natural History, held during the World Voices Festival.
4/27 Writers on Writing the Art, Craft and Business of Getting Published, 7:30 pm
Ossining Public Library presents The Second Annual Festival of Writers and Readers
Bob Minzesheimer will moderate this panel with authors Kirsten Bakis, Preston Keat, Susanna Reich, Jason Riley, Timothy Schenck and Literary agent Amy Williams.
Ossining Public Library
53 Croton Avenue
Ossining, NY
(914) 941-2416, http://ossininglibrary.org
4/25 Creating and Marketing Children's Picture Books, 11 am - 2 pm
Susanna will be a panelist at this event, co-sponsored by SCBWI of Lower Fairfield County.
Harry Bennett Branch Library
115 Vine Road
Stamford, CT
(203) 351-8292, http://www.fergusonlibrary.org/branches/bennett.htm
Susanna and Marc Tyler Nobleman at the SCBWI Lower Fairfield panel. The other participants were Hans Wilhelm, Pat Hubbell, Jamison Odone, and moderator Laura Toffler-Corrie.
2/14 Booksigning, 10 am - 12 noon
Susanna will sign Painting the Wild Frontier as part of Kids Heart Authors Day
Books on the Common
109 Danbury Road
Ridgefield, CT
(203) 431-9100
More than 170 authors and illustrators signed at 40 independent bookstores in New York and New England on Valentine's Day. Signing at Books on the Common were (from left) Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Jackie Logsted and Greg Logsted (The Sisters 8), Marc Tyler Nobleman (Boys of Steel), Susanna Reich (Painting the Wild Frontier) and Nora Raleigh Baskin (All We Know of Love).
2/8 Catlin for Kids: Family Day with Booksigning, 1-3 pm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery
Enjoy an afternoon with George Catlin in his Indian Gallery. Meet Susanna Reich, who will sign copies and reads excerpts from her recently published book, Painting the Wild Frontier: The Art and Adventures of George Catlin. Then create artworks and play games inspired by Catlin's works and watch a Native American musical performance. Free.
Renwick Gallery
1661 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
(at 17th Street)
Washington DC 20006
(202) 633-1000 http://americanart.si.edu
Catlin and Moran Paintings in the Renwick Grand Salon
Catlin and Moran Paintings
Susanna and Ud-je-jock, an Ojibwa boy
Speaking at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery
Reading at the Renwick
Signing at the Catlin for Kids event
Kids making dreamcatchers
Caroline, 8
Native American flute demonstration
Playing a buffalo horn flute
1/24 "Ugly Betty" Star Mark Indelicato Reads Jose! Born to Dance in New York City, 2 p.m.
Join Susanna as "Ugly Betty" star Mark Indelicato reads her picture book Jose! Born to Dance at the Greenwich Village Barnes and Noble (396 6th Avenue - at 8th Street). Following the reading, there will be a "sneak peek" of Making Books Sing's new musical - the World-Premiere family musical "José Limón: The Making of an Artist, starring Diego Rodriguez.
Diego Rodriguez, Susanna Reich, Mark Indelicato Photo by Laurel Golio.
Mark Indelicato reads Jose! Born to Dance Photo by Laurel Golio.
Diego Rodriguez, Mark Indelicato Photo by Laurel Golio.
