Mary Brigid Barrett
Children Pavilion
10 - 11 am
Book Signing
11:30 - 12:30 pm
The Exquisite Corpse Adventure webcast
Mary Brigid Barrett is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator, a professional educator and president and executive director of the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance. Her books include Sing to the Stars, a Best Book of the National Council of Social Studies Teachers; Day Care Days, winner of the Oppenheim Gold Award; and The Man of the House at Huffington Row, a Best Book of the National Storyteller Association. She is editor of the NCBLA publication Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008), a read-aloud family anthology of prose, poetry, drama, nonfiction and art that promotes reading and historical literacy. All profits for Our White House support the work and programs of the NCBLA. Barrett is also the organizer of the Library of Congress’ exclusive chapter book called “The Exquisite Corpse,” which makes its debut in the Children’s Pavilion at the 2009 National Book Festival and at www.read.gov. She lives in Massachusetts.