Authors Chat Online With Students
Jeremy L. Hart
Babe's creator -- Dick King-Smith -- joins five other authors when Random
House's "Children's Author Chat Series" returns this fall. The popular
series runs six consecutive Tuesdays at Talk City and Parent Soup,
starting November 10. The full line-up includes:
Nov.10 => Barbara Park ("Junie B. Jones" Series)
Nov.17 => Mary Pope Osborne ("Magic Treehouse" Series)
Nov.24 => Talk City Only (1 p.m.):
Dick King-Smith ("Babe -- The Pig" Series)
Nov.24 => Parent Soup Only (8 and 9 p.m.):
Mavis Jukes (Author of "It's a Girl Thing")
Dec.1 => Chaim Potok (Author of "Zebra and Other Stories")
Dec.8 => Ron Roy ("A to Z Mysteries" Series)
Dec.15 => Jerry Spinelli (Author of "Crash" and
"Knots in My Yo-Yo String")
The Talk City series is geared toward teachers and students and requires
pre-registration. The series will be held in Talk City's EduCenter on
Tuesdays at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. A sign-up sheet can be found at the
following URL:
http://www.talkcity.com/educenter/features.htmpl
The Parent Soup series is open to all who want to attend: parents,
teachers, children, writers -- anyone. Pre-registration is not required,
though the chats will be moderated. The authors will visit Parent Soup's
America Online Forum on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, then switch over
to Parent Soup's web site at 9 p.m. For more information, please see
http://www.parentsoup.com/chat
There is no charge to attend the Children's Author Chat Series and all the
sites involved have strict privacy policies against marketing to people
who participate in the chats. The series is produced by Random House
Children's Media Group, a leader in developing learning materials that are
both educational and fun. Random House furnishes two web sites with
supplemental materials for teachers, parents and children. You can find
more information at these sites:
* Kids@Random: http://www.randomhouse.com/kids
* Teachers@Random: http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers