Today concludes the Texas Library Association Annual Conference, held here in Austin for the first time in some forty years.
Highlights included:
Teri Lesesne booktalking new MS/HS literature, including TOFU AND T.REX. The complete list is at her Goddess of YA Literature blog.
The panel on Humor in Multicultural Literature, with Alex Sanchez, Roger Leslie, Cynthia Leitich Smith, me, and moderated by Victor Schill. (Thanks to Victor's good offices, there are also plans to do a similar panel at ALA this summer in Chicago.).
The poetry slam panel, moderated by Sylvia Vardell, and including Lee Bennett Hopkins, Janet Wong, and Walter Dean Myers.
Dinner at The Bitter End, with my editor, Amy Hsu, and the folks at Little, Brown.
More notes on TLA are at Cyn's blog.
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