Friday, September 08, 2006

Author Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry will delivery the 9th annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Wednesday evening, October 18, 7:30 p.m., at the Wisconsin Union Theater on the UW-Madison campus.

Ms. Lowry is the author of many acclaimed books for children and teenagers, including the Newbery-award winning "Number the Stars" (Houghton Mifflin, 1989) and "The Giver" (Houghton Mifflin, 1993). Her most recent book is "Gossamer" (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).

This is a free public lecture, and is a featured event of the 2006 Wisconsin Book Festival. For more information about this year's
lecture, go to http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/czfaq.asp

The annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture is sponsored by the Cooperative
Children's Book Center of the School of Education at UW-Madison to honor UW alumna Charlotte Zolotow's distinguished career as a children's book editor. The CCBC also sponsors the annual Charlotte
Zolotow Award to honor Charlotte's career as an author.

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