Posting for Judy Freeman, who many of you know!    :) Carol Levin

Hi Everyone--

Somehow, the year has rolled around again and my 27th Annual Winners! Conference across scenic New Jersey begins a mere 5 weeks from today! This year's all-day seminar will feature my tour of the 100+ Best Children's Books of 2010; breakfast AND a fabulous lunch, including delicious desserts I will try (without apparent success) not to eat; the world's best handbook; free galleys and door prizes; and a chance to network with lots of other leading teachers and librarians!

Owl Books will be there again this year, carrying virtually all the books I'll be talking about so you can purge yourself of unneeded cash and pick up books to use with your kids the next day. (There will also be plenty of Libraries Unlimited and Linworth professional titles for sale, too.)

This year, when every politician is telling us how greedy and incompetent we educators are, it will be a relief to take a day off from the venomous rhetoric and remember what's so incredibly fun and satisfying about what we do: connecting children with books, turning kids into lifelong readers and learners, and catching up on the most memorable recent children's books. I've been working on my all-new program and PowerPoint all year, and think you're going to have a blast with this past year's books that I think no teacher or librarian should be without. Can't afford Canyon Ranch? Think of this as our own Spa Sabbatical Day.

I'm so hoping you'll be able to get the day off to join us. I know how hard it's been for some of you to get professional days this year. Do tell your children's book-loving friends and colleagues about this book- and idea-packed day, as not everyone is on our mailing list. I look forward to Winners! every year--it's one big, friendly reunion and book party. For those of you who have been to my BER seminars, it's like that, and then some.


And if you can't go yourself, as the next best thing, you can always buy yourself a copy of the gorgeous and totally brand new 250-page conference handout--The Winners! Handbook: A Closer Look at Judy Freeman's Top-Rated Children's Books of 2010--which is coming out from my wonderful publisher, Libraries Unlimited (www.LU.com) in May. (Follett, B&T, and Amazon, etc., will all have it, too.) As always, this all-new book is stuffed full of lesson plans, worksheets, 6 Reader's Theater scripts, songs, stories, websites, and mini essays about each of my 101 favorite children's books of 2010. I write each new handbook, since 2006, to be a yearly update to Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3 (Libraries Unlimited, 2006).

Here's the info on the day:

JUDY FREEMAN'S 27th ANNUAL WINNERS CONFERENCE:

To find the flyer: www.LU.com/winners

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at The Mansion, Voorhees, NJ
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at Birchwood Manor, Whippany, NJ
Friday, April 29, 2011 at Pines Manor, Edison, NJ

The $179 registration fee includes:
Continental Breakfast
Lunch
The Winners! Handbook
Certificate of Participation (5 professional development contact hours)

TO REGISTER, CONTACT:
Debby LaBoon
Libraries Unlimited Professional Workshops Department
23851 E. Phillips Place
Aurora, CO 80016
Office: 720-876-2033
Fax: 720-870-4892
Cell: 720-323-1070
E-mail: ...@abc-clio.com" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">dlab...@abc-clio.com

And even if you don't have a cent left in your budget, that's OK, too--you will be able to find my Winners! list for free on Follett's great website, www.titlewave.com. Just log in, click on ESSENTIALS on the top of the page, then scroll down to EXPERT PICKS and scroll down till you find my name, Judy Freeman. Click. When you get to the Judy Freeman page, click on my name at the top (Drill Down) and you'll find my BER booklists for this year and last, and the Winner's lists, too (though the new one won't be up till May 1).

Keeping fingers crossed I get to see you there!

Best--

Judy

Judy Freeman
Children's Literature Consultant
Author of Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3
(Libraries Unlimited, 2006; www.LU.com)
and Once Upon a Time:
Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and
Reader's Theater with Children in Grades K-6 (2007)
and the all-new The WINNERS! Handbook (2011)
65 North Sixth Avenue
Highland Park, NJ 08904
732-572-5634 / ...@aol.com" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">BKW...@aol.com
www.JudyReadsBooks.com

P.S. I've only got 3 weeks left on my BER schedule this year, but just in case one is near you, here's where I'll be speaking:
Mar 25 Hartford, CT (This Friday!)
Apr 04 Allentown, PA
Apr 05 Harrisburg, PA
Apr 06 State College, PA
Apr 07 Pittsburgh, PA
Apr 08 Birmingham, AL
May 09 Grand Rapids, MI
May 10 Saginaw, MI
May 11 Detroit, MI
May 12 Rochester, NY
May 13 Syracuse, NY
May 23 Manchester, NH
May 24 Long Island, NY
May 25 Columbus, OH
May 26 Chicago North, IL

Never been to a BER program? Go to www.BER.org, click on SEMINARS, the state where I'm speaking, and K-6, and you'll see my listing and flyer.
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