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MSLA Celebrates Local Authors & Illustrators
Sunday afternoon, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Meet the Authors.....Author Signings
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| | Mark Binder
| |  ![]() Mark Binder has the unique ability to reach out and grab all ages. His work regularly appears in Cricket Magazine. In the past year, he's had four new books released. The Bed Time Story Book collection is a multigenerational masterpiece now in its seventh edition. A Hanukkah Present was the finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Family Literature. His first novel, The Brothers Schlemiel was published in a beautifully illustrated hardback edition. His latest book is It Ate My Sister. Take this opportunity meet Mark before he begins his 2010 international tour.
| Kathleen Benner Duble
| http://www.kathleenduble.com |  Kathleen had sixteen car accidents before she was twenty-one! Being an at-home writer keeps her from hitting the road (or anyone else). She is the author of seven books for children, including The Sacrifice, a Jefferson Cup Noteworthy Book, Hearts of Iron, an IRA Teacher’s Choice, Bravo Zulu, Samantha! an Agatha Award nominee and a Massachusetts Book Award Honor Book and The Story of the Samson, a NCSS Notable Trade Book. Kathleen loves digging for great historical stories, although, despite her picture, she does not actually dig in graveyards. She loves presenting to students and lovers of books about anything to do with writing, encouraging them all to look for the very best stories right in their own backyard!
| Louis Garafolo
| http://www.equationnineteen.com | Louis Garafalo is a native of southeastern Massachusetts where he resides with his wife and two  sons. He is a thirty year veteran of the health insurance industry who enjoys creative writing as a hobby. Lou is the author of three books: The Sassamon Circle, an historical novel centering around a Wompanaug Indian named John Sassamon during the time of the King Philip's War in 1675; Equation Nineteen, a medical suspense novel set in Boston; The Road To Phrygia, a work of religious fiction.
| | Stephen Krensky | http://www.stephenkrensky.com |  Stephen has had over one hundred books published, everything from picture books to novels, fantasy to realism, fiction to nonfiction. “Being able to try so many different kinds of books has helped me stay enthusiastic about every book I write,” he explains. In his recent book, Sisters of Scituate Light, he has brought to life the true story of how two resourceful sisters--daughters of the lighthouse keeper in Scituate, became heroes by saving their New England town during the War of 1812. How Santa Got His Job was a 1999 American Library Association Notable Book.
| Maryellen Maguire-Eisen
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http://www.melanomaprevention.org
|  Maryellen Maguire-Eisen is a dermatology and oncology nurse specialist. She founded the Children’s Melanoma Prevention Foundation a little over six years ago to teach school children about sun protection and skin cancer prevention. Our grassroots program, the SunAWARE Program, is delivered free of charge to children in Massachusetts from grades kindergarten through twelve. Along with Mary Barrow we wrote Pretty Prom: Your Skin is Pretty Too and Lake Vacation to reinforce our classroom messages about proper sun protection and the hazards of indoor tanning. The books were awarded the prestigious 2009 American Academy of Dermatology Gold Triangle Award for Community Education. In addition, we received the Dermatology Nurses Association 2009 Presidential Award. Since melanoma, the deadly form of skin cancer, is the #1 cancer in young white women and the fourth most common cancer in children we believe that sun protection education is essential in every school curriculum.
| Ralph Masiello
| http://www.ickybugman.com |  A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Ralph acquired his nickname the “ickybugman” from author Jerry Pallotta after illustrating his book, The Icky Bug Alphabet. Since 1987, he has been traveling all across the country, visiting thousands of schools to speak to children and teachers about his job and what goes into creating an illustrated book. In addition to illustrating for Jerry Pallotta, he also did The Flag We Love with Pam Munoz Ryan. Ralph also has his own series of Drawing Books for kids including, The Bug Drawing Book, The Dinosaur Drawing Book, The Dragon Drawing Books and his newest addition, The Ancient Eygpt Drawing Book.
| Deborah Noyes
| http://www.deborahnoyes.com |  Author, editor/anthologist, and photographer, Deborah has published a dozen books — from children’s picture books to adult novels — most recently Sideshow: Ten Original Stories of Freaks, Illusionists, and Other Matters Odd and Magical, a YA anthology; African Acrostics: A Word in Edgeways, Prudence and Moxie, both picture books; and Encyclopedia of the End: Mysterious Death in Fact, Fancy, Folklore, and More. Honors and awards include: ALA Best Books for Young Adults, ASPCA/Henry Bergh Award, NYPL Books for the Teen Age, Kirkus Editors’ Choice, Parents’ Choice, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. In 2007, Deb was honored as one of the Boston Public Library’s “Literary Lights for Children.” Her second adult novel, Captivity, will be published in Spring 2010.
| | Ruth Sanderson | http://www.ruthsanderson.com |  Cinderella, Papa Gatto, The Crystal Mountain, Saints Lives and Illuminations are a few of the books Ruth has written or retold and illustrated. She also illustrated 18 covers for the Nancy Drew series and now illustrates the Horse Diaries. After being introduced to a children’s book editor by Jane Yolen, Ruth was hired by Little, Brown for her own retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Her most recent book Mother Goose and Friends uses Jane Yolen as the model for Mother goose flying high on the cover. Watch for her newest book, a version of Golidlocks and the Three Bears.
| Tui Sutherland
| http://www.tuibooks.com/ |  Tui is the author of more than 30 books for children and teens, ranging from easy-to-reads to middle-grade and YA novels. Her newest project is a series about dogs for ages 8-13 called Pet Trouble. Her books for teens include This Must Be Love (a retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and the supernatural/post-apocalyptic Avatars trilogy. Among her pseudonymous books are, the Disney Pirate series, Legends of the Brethren Court (using the pen name Rob Kidd), and the Little House spin-off Nellie Oleson Meets Laura Ingalls (under the pseudonym Heather Williams). She is also one of four authors working on the best-selling Warriors and Seekers books under the name Erin Hunter.
| | "The Write Sisters" | http://www.thewritesisters.com |  A group of 7 women, they are related only through their shared passion -- writing for kids. Collectively, they have authored over 125 books. Their newest collaborative title is called: . Appearing at our authorfest will be Muriel Dubois, Diane Mayr, Kathy Deady. The Write Sisters are (back, l to r) Muriel Dubois, Barbara Turner, Kathleen Deady, and Andrea Murphy, (front) Diane Mayr, Janet Buell and Sally Wilkins.
| Kathy Deady
| http://www.kathleendeady.com |  Kathy Deedy is the author of over 40 books for children. Her titles include The New Hampshire Colony, It’s Time! and, All Year Long, a CBC/IRA Children’s Choice selection for 2005.Her work has also appeared in several children’s magazines. Kathy’s passion for writing began in college with picture books, but along the way she discovered a love of nonfiction as well. She enjoys visiting schools and libraries to share that love of both with children.
| Muriel Dubois
| http://www.murieldubois.com |  Muriel L. Dubois is the award-winning author of more than 35 books for children including New Hampshire Facts and Symbols, To My Countrywomen: The Life of Sarah Josepha Hale, and Abenaki Captive. She enjoys speaking to children and adults about writing and publishing. Muriel writes from her home in Bedford, New Hampshire where she also spends part of the day letting her two dogs in and out of the back yard.
| Diane Mayr
| http://www.dianemayr.com |  Diane Mayr says, “I may not have been born a writer, but I’ll surely die as one!” A former school library volunteer and children’s librarian, she is now the adult services librarian/assistant director in Windham, NH. Her published works for children include the picture books, Littlebat's Halloween Story, and Run, Turkey, Run!, The Everything Kids' Money Book, and articles, activities, poems, stories in magazines such as Spider. Her articles on writing have appeared in The Writer.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 11 September 2010 )
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