Instructor: Ann Whitford Paul
Saturday, March 29, 2008 • 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Fairview Baptist Church • 113 E. Fairview Rd., Bakersfield, CA 93307

$50.00 for SCBWI members, $60.00 for non-members
(Includes a one-hour break for lunch on your own)

This full day workshop will focus on poetry for children, either individual poems or longer rhyming texts. We’ll practice basic rhythms, learn the importance of consistent rhyme and touch on other poetic techniques to enhance all writing. Bring a poem or short rhyming picture book manuscript for sharing and feedback.

Ann Whitford Paul is the author of several rhymed picture books including Shadows Are About, Everything to Spend the Night, and Hello Toes! Hello Feet! Her upcoming book is If Animals Kissed Good Night. She’s also published a collection of poetry titled All by Herself: Fourteen Girls Who Made a Difference. Her poems have appeared in Cricket and Spider magazines and anthologies by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Myra Cohn Livingston and others. She also writes early readers, picture books in prose and received the 1996 Carl Sandburg Award for Children’s Literature for her non-fiction book The Seasons Sewn: A Year in Patchwork. She teaches picture book writing through UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
Her website is www.annwhitfordpaul.net