A Conversation with Award-Winning Writer Paula Yoo
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
2:00-3:00 pm Central Time via Zoom
Join us as we speak with writer Paula Yoo, author of From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement. This presentation will be co-hosted by Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen (The Center for Children’s Books) and Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’ Detroit Stories class (University of Michigan).
Paula Yoo is an award-winning author of children’s books, a former journalist, and current screenwriter who has merged her talents to create a thoroughly researched and reported nonfiction book, but with the intensity of a suspense movie thriller, and the intimate emotional character journey of a novel. As a Korean American who’s specialized in multicultural Asian American themed children’s books and having lived in Detroit working as a journalist for The Detroit News, Yoo is able to examine the controversial racial issues behind the Vincent Chin story with sensitivity, authority, and grace.
Register here for the Zoom session.
CCB Annual Book Sale (Pre-Sale)
Saturday, April 22, 2023
12-6:00 pm Central Time
1st floor lobby at 614 E. Daniel St.
For the very best selection for our Annual Book Sale, you will want to attend the Pre-Sale, featuring hundreds of new children’s books for youth ages birth through high school. The titles available represent the full spectrum of children’s publishing in fiction and nonfiction: board books, picture books, easy and transitional readers, chapter books, series fiction, novels, activity books and kits, nonfiction series, mass-market paperbacks, and more.
Paperback books are $1 or $2 each, hardcover books are $5 each, with other items priced as marked. All proceeds support the Center for Children’s Books (CCB) and The Bulletin of The Center for Children’s Books. Tickets to the Pre-Sale are $20. Please email the Center for Children’s Books at bccb@illinois.edu or call us at (217) 244-0324 for more information about the Book Sale or to register for the Pre-Sale. Ticket reservations will be accepted FROM 4/1/2023 TO 4/16/2023.
CCB Annual Book Sale
Sunday, April 23, 2023
12-6:00 pm Central Time
1st floor lobby at 614 E. Daniel St.
The Center for Children’s Books Annual Book Sale will feature hundreds of new children’s books for youth ages birth through high school. The titles available represent the full spectrum of children’s publishing in fiction and nonfiction: board books, picture books, easy and transitional readers, chapter books, series fiction, novels, activity books and kits, nonfiction series, mass-market paperbacks, and more.
Paperback books are $1 or $2 each, hardcover books are $5 each, with other items priced as marked. All proceeds support the Center for Children’s Books (CCB) and The Bulletin of The Center for Children’s Books. Please email the Center for Children’s Books at bccb@illinois.edu or call us at (217) 244-0324 for more information about the Book Sale.
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