The Collaborative Summer Library Program has announced that Newbery Award-winning author Kate DiCamillo will be the 2016-2017 National Summer Reading Champion. As part of her role for CSLP, DiCamillo will be doing a live webcast on May 13th, 11:00AM-12:00PM Eastern time. DiCamillo will be talking about the importance of summer reading as well as encouraging children to sign up for the Summer Reading program at their local library. While participation in this webcast is free, you do have to register. You can register at the following website: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wCwDscMxuKXLiLR80JU1bBiJ0Y49k39mydscbVK5AvU/
DiCamillo will also be discussing her new book, “Raymie Nightingale” during this discussion.
Additional information about Kate DiCamillo as the National Summer Reading Champion, is available on the CSLP website here :http://www.cslpreads.org/nationalsummerreadingchampion/.
An archived copy of this Webcast is available through CSLP as well as at Kinber Digital Cloud . In addition to watching the webcast, you can read live tweets from the interview. Both the webcast and tweets may be shared on your school or library website.
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