Schedule of Events

Daytime presentations by Karla Harry Visiting Author Christina Soontornvat

Third and fourth grade: making connections with classroom curriculum on activism and fantasy eco-fiction and on Soontornvat’s journey as an author, focused on the Legends of Lotus Island series

Kindergarten, first and second grade: connecting The Ramble Shamble Children, a picture book by Soontornvat illustrated by Lauren Castillo, with outdoor learning, small moment stories and the Gordon School Multicultural Picture Book Award

Middle School: exploring themes of local and global activism and socioeconomic issues with a focus on All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team. What is the power of narrative nonfiction to tell our stories? 

Book signing in the Commons

2:45-3:45pm Christina Soontornvat: Karla Harry Visiting Author 

Daytime presentations by Karla Harry Visiting Author Christina Soontornvat

Fourth grade workshop: focused on this year's Battle of the Books selection A Wish in the Dark  

Seventh grade writing workshop: connections with NANOWRIMO

Sixth grade presentation: focused on graphic novels Tryout and Squad, plus a Q&A for A WIsh in the Dark, exploring identity, geography, sustainability, resource allocation and issues of power and oppression within societal and governmental institutions both locally and globally

Book signings in the Wales Theater

2:45-3:45pm Christina Soontornvat: Karla Harry Visiting Author 

Daytime presentations by Marc Tyler Nobleman

Kindergarten and Young Kindergarten presentation: The Chupacabra  

"Heroes with and without Capes" presentation for fifth and sixth grade: How can one person have an impact at different levels of their circles of community? Curricular connections to Bill The Boy Wonder, The Secret Co-Creator of Batman

“There is no expiration date to justice” presentation for eighth grade: Curricular connections to reparation, crediting, and ownership of ideas with a focus on Thirty Minutes over Oregon: a Japanese Pilot’s World War II Story and Bill The Boy Wonder, The Secret Co-Creator of Batman 

Book signings in the Wales Theater

3:40-4:40pm Marc Tyler Nobleman

Evening presentation by Marc Tyler Nobleman
Batman’s Biggest Secret: Saving a Hero’s Legacy

6:30pm in the Wales Theater 

“Even people who couldn’t care less about superheroes are riveted by this emotional story.”

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Marc Tyler Nobleman played a crucial role in documenting the work of Bill Finger, the Jewish writer who was uncredited for his work co-creating Batman. Thirty years later, Nobleman launched a campaign to correct the record, which included writing Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, a picture book biography of Finger that was later the basis for the Hulu documentary Batman & Bill.