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Pam Werre and Carol Sibley presented at 13th IBBY Conference
Pam Werre, Curriculum Materials Center librarian and Carol Sibley, library professor emerita, presented at the 13th International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Regional Conference in Austin, TX. They presented a session titled, “How is the Classic Home/Away/Home Journey Depicted in Vietnamese and Hmong Refugee Narratives?” Sibley and Werre presented on a panel with Dr. Petros Panaou and Eun […]
Werre, Sibley present at Northern Lights Library Network conference
Pam Werre, Curriculum Materials Center librarian, and Carol Sibley, Library Professor Emerita, presented at the Northern Lights Library Network “Better Together” conference on June 6, 2019. Werre and Sibley presented findings from their research on Vietnamese and Hmong juvenile refugee fiction published since the end of the Vietnam War. They also presented on the importance of diversity in children’s book […]
Winners of the 2019 Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Books Awards announced
For the fifteenth year, children have chosen the best read aloud picture books in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards program. A humorous, interactive book with an owl narrator is the winner of the 2019 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award. Don’t Blink was written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by David Roberts. Two titles were […]
Werre, Sibley present poster at IBBY in Athens
Pam Werre, Curriculum Materials Center librarian, and Carol Sibley, library professor emerita, presented a poster session at the 36th International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) in Athens, Greece on August 30, 2018. The title of their presentation was “East Meets West in the Middle: Fifty Years of Fiction about Refugees from Southeast Asia.” and focused on juvenile fiction […]