Conferences
For large group presentations at teachers' or librarians' conferences and elsewhere, I weave together stories, research, and personal experiences to address various topics, including:
- Why Tell Tales?
- Asian Stories for Asian Children
- Guiding Young Writers and Storytellers
- The Wealth of Family Tales
- Travels of a Teller
- The World of Asian Tales and Telling
- From Telling to Writing
A partial list of the conferences I've addressed includes:
- International Reading Association Conference, Alberta, Canada
- I-READ Teachers' Conference, Indiana
- Global Dialogues Expo 2000 Conference, Loccum, Germany
- Asian Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference, Singapore
- Goodwill Guides Association, Kochi, Japan
- Annual Convention, National Council for Social Studies, Chicago
- World Congress of International Reading Association, Hawaii
- American Association of Teachers of Korean, Arizona
- International Institute for Children’s Literature, Osaka, Japan
- Council of International Schools Conference, Japan