The Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature’s 5th Anniversary Celebration Lecture By Jack Gantos
What: Free Public Lecture by Jack Gantos, children’s author
When: Thursday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: UT’s University Center Auditorium
The Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature is
celebrating its 5th year by welcoming one of America’s most
entertaining and successful speakers of children’s literature, Jack Gantos. An
enchanting storyteller, Gantos is the author of the Jack Henry Books, the Joey
Pigza Books, the Rotten Ralph Rotten Readers, Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade (1994), Jack’s New Power: Stories from a
While in college, Gantos began working on picture books with an illustrator friend. In 1976, they published their first book, Rotten Ralph. Gantos
continued writing children’s books and began to teach courses in children’s book writing. Gantos developed the master’s degree program in children’s book
writing at
The Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature works to promote the use of literature in the education and lives of children and young adults by providing workshops for teachers and librarians and sponsoring talks by authors and illustrators, which are open to the public.
Publishers of children’s and young adult books have agreed to place review copies of their most recently published books in the Center, where they are
displayed for 18 months. These books are available for study within the Center by librarians, students, teachers, and the public.
The Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature was created through the cooperative efforts of the
The Center is located in the Reserve Reading Room of Hodges Library on the UT campus. For more information, visit http://www.lib.utk.edu/refs/ccyal/, or contact Ken Wise at kwise@utk.edu.
