>Come See the Stupids Have a Ball!

by Roger Sutton
Nov 07, 2008 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>On Tuesday, November 18 at 7:00PM, I'll be moderating a panel honoring James Marshall's contributions to children's literature. Sponsored by Houghton Mifflin (who has recently published a revised and expanded collection of George and Martha: The Complete Stories of Two Best Friends), the Cambridge Public Library, The Foundation for Children's Books, MIT, and the Horn Book, the free event will take place at MIT's Stata Center (the wild Frank Gehry building) on Vassar Street in Cambridge.

Panelists include author-illustrators Susan Meddaugh and David Wiesner, former HB editor and Houghton publisher Anita Silvey, and Cambridge school librarian Susan Moynihan. We will be reminiscing about Jim (my own favorite story is unprintable but perhaps not unspeakable) and talking about his place in the canon, his legacy to children's literature, and how his books have fared among children. Hilarity, I hope, will ensue.

More information can be found at the Cambridge Public Library.
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Melinda

>I was wondering how your story could be unprintable unless you and Marshall were speaking in Sanskrit. And even then, technically ....

I'm always up for a good, unprintable Marshall story. tee hee!

Posted : Nov 10, 2008 04:27

Roger Sutton

>I'll check, Jean. I think MIT will record it the way they did the Susan Cooper/Gregory Maguire thing I moderated.

Posted : Nov 07, 2008 06:55

Anonymous

>...and Walter Lorraune? such a program wouldn't be complete without him!

Posted : Nov 07, 2008 06:52

jgralley

>Will we be able to view this sometime on the web? Thousands of us would LOVE to see this!

Jean,
a big G & M fan

Posted : Nov 07, 2008 06:02

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