Joy N. Hulme describes herself as “a grandma with the heart of a child.” She was born and
reared in Cottonwood\, Utah\, a rural area at the foot of Mount Olympus south of Salt Lake City. She was rich in all
the things a child needs\: loving parents\, siblings and cousins to play with\, woods to wander in\, Grandpa’s next-door
farm fields to explore\, orchard trees to climb for fresh-fruit snacks\, rocks and logs to build with\, adobe bricks
to melt for sculpting clay\, a huge lawn for tumbling\, and.a wonderful oversize dad-built backyard playground with
a swing\, slide\, glider\, sand box and playhouse.
She says\: “No life is long enough to run out of fresh surprises if we watch for them. I like to be accurate about
facts\, fanciful about fiction and to combine truth and imagination. It is always my goal to encourage the creative
awareness that is inborn in youngsters and to keep it alive in them forever. I want to make learning as much fun for
others as it has always been for me by creating in a light-hearted manner. It is my aim that a child of any age can
become a little better in some way as a result of reading what I have written.”.
Join us as we celebrate her newest book\, Easter Babies\: A Springtime Counting Book.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100319T082041Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100402T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100402T033000Z UID:http://www.hicklebees.com/event/spring-preview-2010 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.hicklebees.com/event/spring-preview-2010 SUMMARY:Spring Preview with Valerie Lewis ~ April 1 DESCRIPTION:Author and Hicklebee's co-owner\, Valerie Lewis presents the best of the best in new literature for grades k-8th. She has reviewed the lists from a wide variety of publishers - large and small - and selected the cream of the crop for Spring 2010. Here you'll find ideas for classroom &\; home.
Make your reservation today for this popular event
408-292-8880 or Email us!
Author and Hicklebee's co-owner\, Valerie Lewis presents the best of the best in new literature for preschoolers. Gleaned for the lists of a wide variety of publishers\, she delivers the absolute perfect books for spring 2010! You'll find lots of ideas for home and school.
Make your reservation today for this popular event ~
408-292-8880 or Email us!
Meanwhile is a wholly original story of invention\, discovery\, and saving the world\, told through a system of tabs that take you forward\, backward\, upside down\, and right side up again. Each read creates a new adventure!
Jason Shiga has won the 2004 Eisner Award\, the 2003 Ignatz Award\, the 2007 Stumpton Trophy Award and received a Xeric Grant in 1999. He lives in Oakland\, California and he's coming to Hicklebee's!
“Crazy + Genius = Shiga” —Scott McCloud\, author of Understanding Comics.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100319T082041Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100419T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100420T003000Z UID:http://www.hicklebees.com/event-joelle-jolivet URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.hicklebees.com/event-joelle-jolivet SUMMARY:Joelle Jolivet ~ April 19 DESCRIPTION:
Joëlle Jolivet is an internationally acclaimed illustrator. She grew up near Paris and studied graphic design before turning her art to book illustration. Today\, her works have been exhibited around the world and the books she has collaborated on have been translated in many languages. In 2007\, the book 365 Penguins that she cleverly illustrated (written by Jean-Luc Fromental) became a New York Times bestseller.
Publishers Weekly has called her books "\;vibrant . . . dazzling\,” and School Library Journal said they “are as aesthetically impressive as they are informative"\;.
She's coming to us from France and will demonstrate her art and speak about her books. Join us!
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GARY PAULSEN
presenting \: Woods Runner
at the
Little Theatre at Willow Glen Middle School
2105 Cottle Ave\, San Jose
$5.00 admission
Ticket price good toward the purchase of Woods Runner.
(Willow Glen Middle School students can obtain their tickets from their Language Arts teachers).
Seating is limited so call ( 408-292-8880)\, come in\, or order yours on-line.
Ages 10 &\; up
Co-sponsored by Hicklebee's and the Willow Glen Foundation.
Paulsen is a master storyteller who has written more than 175 books and some 200 articles and short stories for children and adults. He is one of the most important writers of young adult literature today and three of his novels—Hatchet\, Dogsong\, and The Winter Room—were Newbery Honor Books.It is Paulsen’s overwhelming belief in young people that drives him to write. His intense desire to tap deeply into the human spirit and to encourage readers to observe and care about the world around them has brought him both enormous popularity with young people and critical acclaim from the children’s book community.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100319T082041Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100501T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100501T230000Z UID:http://www.hicklebees.com/event-kids-otter-read URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.hicklebees.com/event-kids-otter-read SUMMARY:Kids Otter Read Day ~ May 1 DESCRIPTION:
Come celebrate the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich
children’s book community with your local independent bookstore on May
1 from 1 – 3pm.
Join more than 50 children’s book authors and illustrators
as they gather at their local independent bookstores to sign books\,
talk about their writing\, and share their art. Hosted by the Northern
California Children’s Bookseller’s Association (NCCBA)\, Kids Otter Read
Day is a not-to-be-missed event for children’s book lovers of all ages.
For more information\, go to kidsotterread.wordpress.com.
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We can't wait to meet her! Join us!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100319T082041Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100506T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100507T010000Z UID:http://www.hicklebees.com/event-pam-munoz-ryan URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.hicklebees.com/event-pam-munoz-ryan SUMMARY:Pam Munoz Ryan ~ May 6 DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of her spectacular new novel\, The Dreamer!
Pam Muñoz Ryan was born and raised in California's San Joaquin Valley. She is the oldest of three sisters and the oldest of twenty-three cousins on her mother's side. She grew up with many of her aunts and uncles and grandparents nearby and considers herself truly American because her cultural background is an ethnic smorgasbord. She is Spanish\, Mexican\, Basque\, Italian\, and Oklahoman.
During many long\, hot valley summers\, she spent most of her time riding her bike to the library. It became her favorite hang out because her family didn't have a swimming pool and the library was air-conditioned! That's how she got hooked on reading and books. After college\, she knew that she wanted to work in a profession that had something to do with books\, and she thought that would be teaching. She became a teacher\, an administrator and then\, at the encouragement of a friend who thought she could write\, began her first book. That's when she finally knew what she really wanted to do.
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