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Supplementary activities for Book Festival

Foghorn

Published: Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010

DMC Early Childhood faculty members will be presenting supplementary activities designed appropriately for preschool children tomorrow for the 10th Annual Children’s Book Festival, “Making Books Come Alive.”

Two workshops on the activities will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in the University Center Bayview Room, Room 320 and from 5:30 to 6:50 p.m. at the DMC White Library, Room 433, East Campus.

DMC Early Childhood faculty members Irma Woods, Amy Roetzel, Kristen Wilkerson and Benita Flores will present activities based on the three books being featured during the festival: Kelly Bennett’s Not Norman: A Goldfish Story, Elizabeth Garton Scanlon’s All the World and Don Tate’s The Hidden Feast.

Bennett and Scanlon are authors and Tate is an illustrator for children’s books.

The two workshops, which provide the same content, are free and open to all teachers, librarians, childcare professionals, students, parents and anyone interested in reading to children.

The 10th Annual Children’s Book Festival will be held Friday, April 9 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on the DMC East Campus.

The festival is sponsored by the Corpus Christi Public Libraries and DMC, in conjunction with TAMU-CC.

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