Prizes! Win Cool Prizes!

Multimedia rocker (Brand new, still in the box)

Courtesy of Floyd Memorial Library

Unshelved T Shirt

Courtesy of Unshelved

Dungeons and Dragons starter game (Brand new, still in the box)

Courtesy of Wizards of the Coast

Other cool prizes include signed copy of 2008 Alex Award-winning Essex County courtesy of Jeff Lemire and Top Shelf Comics, a Comic Con gift basket, and a gourmet pocky gift basket courtesy of Nola Thacker.

The Open Book

135 Main Street Suite 1
Westhampton Beach
New York, 11978

631-288-2120

The Open Book will provide a bookstore for Picture This. Attendees will be able to purchase copies of books created by our talented guests. All of our program participants will be signing copies of their work. Be sure to reserve books early. Last year we ran out of some titles.
Books may be reserved through August 14. Use the book reservation form to ensure you have copies of those books that you would like. Payment can be made on September 4.

RESERVE YOUR BOOKS TODAY !

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Robin Brenner

Robin Brenner is a compelling reason to attend Picture This: Using Images to Illuminate Young Adult Literature. Robin's credentials are impressive: teen librarian, creator of No Flying No Tights website, member of YALSA's Great Graphic Novels committee, judge for the Eisner Awards, instructor for Simmons College, and author of Understanding Manga and Anime. She is also one of the nicest and most interesting people you will meet.

Here is what Robin has said about manga: "I am particularly responsive to images, and finding all of the information and emotion wrapped up in manga's panels feels like the perfect storytelling form to me. "

Chris Butzer

Many publishers are creating books in honor of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, but there is nothing like Chris Butzer's The Gettysburg Graphic. HarperCollins previewed tantalizing images from this forthcoming book and I was immediately captivated. The speech balloons are actual quotes from documented sources and the images bring the story to life. I predict that The Gettysburg Graphic will be THE Lincoln book that everyone will be reading and talking about in 2009. I am thrilled that we will be among the first to group of librarians to get a look at this incredible work!

Jonathan Bean

Jonathan Bean received the 2008 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award for his his illustrations for The Apple Pie that Papa Baked. I also enjoy the charming illustrations for Mokie and Bik Go to Sea and Emmy and the Incredible Shriking Rat but my current favorite is At Night. I love the luminous quality of these images.

I had the opportunity to meet Jonathan at the award ceremony and am thrilled that he will be a part of Picture This.

Jessica Abel

Jessica Abel is one author I can't wait to hear. Drawing Words & Writing Pictures is a useful tool for artists and librarians. Great organization, clear instruction and illustration, and helpful tips make this an incredible resource for anyone who wants to create or appreciate and understand stories told in sequential art panels.

Life Sucks. What more can you say about a vegetarian vampire (he drinks only bottled plasma) who works the night shift at a convenience store? Things get worse when our sensitive young vampire falls for a customer at the store, the "girl of his dreams". Do dreams come true? Is there more to eternal life than bottled plasma and the late shift? It's all in the pages of LIfe Sucks.

Danica Novgorodoff

The cover of Slow Storm hints at this beautiful evocative book . I was able to view some early pages of this story of a Kentucky fire-fighter and an illegal immigrant and promise that you won't be disappointed.

Danica is a designer for First Second and is responsible for the cover design for several First Second titles, including the Printz-winning American Born Chinese.

View more of Danica's work and learn more about her at the First Second blog. Danica will be creating for Just Desserts and signing copies of her book. I can't wait!