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Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Literature Lecture—2009

The Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Literature Lectures is an annual lecture/reading presented by the University of Michigan's Department of English. Its intent is to foster interest in quality Children’s Literature at the University of Michigan. 2009 featured award winning children's literature author Cynthia Kadohata.

Kadohata published her first story in The New Yorker in 1986.  Since then, she has published three adult novels and three young adult novels: The Floating World (Viking 1989), chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; In the Heart of the Valley of Love (Viking 1992); The Glass Mountains (White Wolf 1995); Kira-Kira (Atheneum 2004), winner of the 2005 Newbery Medal; Weedflower (Atheneum 2006), winner of the Pen USA Literary Award, the Jane Addams Book Award, and the One Book Arizona; Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam (Atheneum 2007); and Outside Beauty (Atheneum 2008).

She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and lives in Southern California.

For more information on the author see:

BIO:
http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ge-La/Kadohata-Cynthia.html

The Project:
Design promotional material for the lecture in the form of a poster, flyer, and web banner ad. The design created by Anthony for this project touched on the author's personal life, Japanese-American heritage, and themes from the author's work.