A memorial tribute to Tomie dePaola, who died on March 30, will be held next Tuesday, September 15--which would have been dePaola's 86th birthday--at 5:30 p.m. Eastern on Zoom. No registration required.
Speakers (in alphabetical order) include Judie Bobbi, Tomie dePaola's sister; Alan Chong, director, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, N.H.; Pat Cummings, illustrator and author and SCBWI Board of Advisors member; Laurent Linn, art director, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers and SCBWI Board of Advisors member; Anita Lobel, illustrator and author; Charles Massey, former executive director, Newport Opera House, N.H.; Lin Oliver, author and executive director, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators; Doug Whiteman of the Whiteman Agency; Cecilia Yung, executive art director and v-p at Penguin Books for Young Readers and SCBWI Board of Advisors member.