Sibling Rivalry – Page 7 – Janet Ruth Heller

“Recent Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults” Panel and “Using Poems to Get Students to Write” Presentation at Michigan Reading Association Conference in Grand Rapids on Saturday, March 11, 2017

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Post published:December 4, 2016
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Authors and scholars Janet Ruth Heller and Jennifer Burd will discuss “Recent Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults” at the Michigan Reading Association’s Conference at the DeVos Place Convention Center at 303 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 in the Gallery Overlook G room from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. (more…)

Discussion of Multicultural Literature for Children & Young Adults at International Literacy Conference in Boston on July 10, 2016 from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 14, 2016
Post category:Books Conference Presentations Discrimination Fiction Historical Fiction Janet's Speaking Events Jewish Families Jewish Traditions Literature Multicultural Literature Psychological Issues Sibling Rivalry

On Sunday, July 10, 2016 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Room 209 of the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, Janet Ruth Heller will be speaking on a panel at the International Literacy Association Conference about Recent Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults. The title of her presentation is “Recent Multicultural Books for Children about Jews and People of Color.” For more information, please see the website http://www.literacyworldwide.org/conference Janet’s website is https://www.janetruthheller.com/

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.