Michigan Author coming for Story Telling
On Friday October 24th, Michigan author Margaret Willey will share her gift of story telling at the Veterans Memorial Library branch of the Chippewa River District Library system. Story telling will start at 10:15am, the event is free, and open to the public. This fall Margaret is presenting a lovely, haunting peace fable--something very authentic--a folktale she found while doing research on French Canadian folklore. The folktale, set during the Napoleonic Wars in France, was called Les Sept Belle Demoiselles. She retells the story in her own voice and searched for the right way to send it back into the world with its timeless message of peace. Eventually she found a wonderful artist who created highly original folk art illustrations. Along with a team of other creative souls, they have produced a book that is intended to wage peace in a time of war. All proceeds for the book go to peace related events and projects at Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, Michigan. The book is titled The Forest Boy. It is a story for all ages, beautifully illustrated by the artist Jane Leonard.
For thirty years, Margaret Willey has written in many different genres. Most recently, she has published the picture book The 3 Bears and Goldilocks (Atheneum 2008), illustrated by Heather Solomon. With this book, her love affair with folktales and fairy tales continues... Earlier in the decade, she wrote 3 folktales for children, all of which featured the character Beatrice, a very brave and very clever girl from the north woods. Each of these books is illustrated by the amazing Heather Solomon. To learn more about them, and to discover a website designed for her youngest readers, visit cleverbeatrice.com.
For the past decade, she has been writing and rewriting A Summer of Silk Moths, hoping that it would eventually become her re-entry into the genre of young adult fiction, which is where she first began publishing, back in the early eighties. Her earlier novels for teenagers include The Bigger Book of Lydia (Harper and Row 1981), an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and Facing the Music (Delacorte 1998), an ALA Quick Pick. A Summer of Silk Moths is a tribute to a novel she loved as a girl--A Girl of the Limberlost, by Jean Stratton Porter. Both stories feature a fatherless but fearless girl and a moth collection. Stratton's classic novel is set in the Limberlost swamps of Indiana. Her novel unfolds on the banks of the St. Joseph River in Buchanan, Michigan. Like Limberlost, her novel showcases the great North American Silkmoths. They are presented as symbols of creativity, mystery, dream life, and regeneration. Her novel also reflects her long-standing belief that damaged children can find emotional healing in the natural world. It is also a love story, and a mystery. A Summer of Silk Moths will be published by Flux, an exciting new press for young adult fiction, in Fall 2009. She is currently working on another novel for teenagers, a collection of autobiographical essays, and several more folktales.
For more events and activities happening at your Chippewa River District Library, call 989.773.3242 or click www.crdl.org.
For thirty years, Margaret Willey has written in many different genres. Most recently, she has published the picture book The 3 Bears and Goldilocks (Atheneum 2008), illustrated by Heather Solomon. With this book, her love affair with folktales and fairy tales continues... Earlier in the decade, she wrote 3 folktales for children, all of which featured the character Beatrice, a very brave and very clever girl from the north woods. Each of these books is illustrated by the amazing Heather Solomon. To learn more about them, and to discover a website designed for her youngest readers, visit cleverbeatrice.com.
For the past decade, she has been writing and rewriting A Summer of Silk Moths, hoping that it would eventually become her re-entry into the genre of young adult fiction, which is where she first began publishing, back in the early eighties. Her earlier novels for teenagers include The Bigger Book of Lydia (Harper and Row 1981), an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and Facing the Music (Delacorte 1998), an ALA Quick Pick. A Summer of Silk Moths is a tribute to a novel she loved as a girl--A Girl of the Limberlost, by Jean Stratton Porter. Both stories feature a fatherless but fearless girl and a moth collection. Stratton's classic novel is set in the Limberlost swamps of Indiana. Her novel unfolds on the banks of the St. Joseph River in Buchanan, Michigan. Like Limberlost, her novel showcases the great North American Silkmoths. They are presented as symbols of creativity, mystery, dream life, and regeneration. Her novel also reflects her long-standing belief that damaged children can find emotional healing in the natural world. It is also a love story, and a mystery. A Summer of Silk Moths will be published by Flux, an exciting new press for young adult fiction, in Fall 2009. She is currently working on another novel for teenagers, a collection of autobiographical essays, and several more folktales.
For more events and activities happening at your Chippewa River District Library, call 989.773.3242 or click www.crdl.org.
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