Parents
A Minute With Violet Harris
How do you keep kids reading through the distractions of a long summer?
Violet Harris and Carol Scharlau talk about the Youth Literature Festival with Jim Turpin on WDWS
Saturday, October 4 Activities
- Meet the Authors and Illustrators
- Readings, Lectures, and Book Signings
- Youth Entertainment Groups+
- Storytelling and Puppetry+
- Hands-on Activities for Young Children+
- Poetry Cafe
- *Community Resource Fair+
Activities was held in the University of Illinois Colleges of Education and Law, the Krannert Art Museum, and in public libraries and museums across Urbana-Champaign. In addition, activities denoted with a "+" was held in tents located on the South Quad of the Illinois campus.
The South Quad is located just east of Temple Buell Hall at 611 Taft Drive, Champaign. The South Quad is accessible from Taft Drive to the north, Peabody Drive and Pennsylvania Avenue to the south, and Sixth Street to the west. Free parking is available in all campus rental lots on Saturdays excluding spaces rented on a 24 hour basis.
Community Opportunities
*If your organization serves children or families in Champaign County and would like free display space at the Festival Community Resource Fair, please contact Christina DeNicolo at: cpd@uiuc.edu.
*If you or your group or organization would like to volunteer on Saturday, October 4, please contact Jean Johnson at: jeanie54@mac.com.
Local Literature Resources
The School (S)-Collection in the Education and Social Science library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign consists of more than 112,000 cataloged volumes of children's and young adult literature in a total collection of over 148,000 volumes. It is one of the most comprehensive collections of children's literature in the nation, second only to the Library of Congress.
Originally created as a working collection for students in Education or Library and Information Science, the collection now supports doctoral and historical research as well, with books dating from 1800 to the present. Special strengths of the collection include alphabet books, pop-up books, Aesop’s fables, fairy tales, picture books, and juvenile biographies of Abraham Lincoln. The collection contains fiction and non-fiction books suitable for young children to teens in high school.
Additional information about the S-Collection may be found at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/shome.htm
Residents living in the state of Illinois can get a courtesy borrowing card to check out materials from the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Information about the process for requesting a card may be found at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/circ/courtesy.htm. Materials may be checked out and renewed according to the individual policies of the UIUC libraries.