Joanne Ryder and Laurence Yep

Friday, March 8, in Anchorage
Akla Library Conference Presentation

Joanne Ryder and Laurence Yep charmed and delighted the audience at the AkLA conference 2002 in Anchorage with stories and of their life, and memories of family.

Joanne Ryder celebrated ideas of sharing nature with children at a session on Saturday and Laurence Yep discussed his vision of past and future with "Sweetness from the Past" at the Authors to Alaska Luncheon.

Laurence Yep is well known for his Newbery Honor Book Dragonwings in which he gracefully weaves Chinese tradition and legend into a narrative based on the true story of Fong Joe Guey, a Chinese-American who built and flew an airplane in the Oakland hills in 1909. His next book, Child of the Owl, won the 1977 Boston Globe Book Fiction Award.

Joanne Ryder is the author of numerous picture books for children, many with nature themes. The Snail’s Spell won a New York Academy of Sciences Book Award. She has named three times in the annual list of “Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children” by a joint committee of the Children’s Book Council and the National Science Teachers Association.

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