Here are the pics from NYC…
The only view I got of the Empire State Building…
Both dark due to their strikes…
Times Square
And… the authors 
Me and Jerry Spinelli, the king of YA lit! I got his newest book– not yet out Yay me!
Ishmael Beah, his memoir still sits with me almost a year later.
My friend Jess and Katherine Paterson… she told her about reading Bridge to Terabithia five times in 5th grade and leaving a pool of tears at her desk… and then she cried.
I HEART James Howe!! He asked me for a hug when I told him that I introduce Totally Joe to my 4th graders. Wow! When I sat down later and read his inscriptions in my books, I cried.
Definitely the best session of the whole conference… Authors’ Readers’ Theater.
Avi, Katherine Paterson, Sarah Weeks, and Brian Selznick…. ahhhh…
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