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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">Please excuse duplicate postings.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">REGISTRATION ENDS FRIDAY, APRIL 3.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">Don’t miss award-winner authors and illustrators David Macaulay, Grace Lin and Rita Williams-Garcia at the 31st Annual Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature
for Youth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">More information and registration:
<a href="http://www.kent.edu/virginiahamiltonconference">http://www.kent.edu/virginiahamiltonconference</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">When: Thursday, April 9, evening; Friday, April 10, all day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">Where: Kent State University Student Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">Theme: "Building Global Citizens Through Literature"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">The April 9 evening program includes dinner, a keynote address by the 17th Annual Virginia Hamilton Literary Award winner, David Macaulay, and brief remarks by Grace Lin and
Rita Williams-Garcia, followed by a performance and book-signing. <span style="color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">April 10 features a full complement of workshops, along with keynote addresses by Lin and Williams-Garcia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">REGISTER NOW!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">Flo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">Flo Cunningham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">School of Library and Information Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">Kent State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">330-672-0003<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:fcunning@kent.edu"><span style="color:windowtext">fcunning@kent.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges</span></i><span style="font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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