Seattle, Day 2, Part 2

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At the American Library Association’s (ALA’s) Midwinter Meeting exhibit hall, there are thousands of exhibitors. The exhibits are spread out across two exhibit halls. My daughter Aedin and I went through one of the exhibit halls today.

Here are some of the special things we saw and did:

Terry Trueman, the author of Stuck in Neutral, gave a talk at the Library of Congress booth as part of LC’s Lifelong Literacy Initiative. He was such a great and incredibly funny speaker. He is an author I would absolutely LOVE to bring to Maine. I bought three copies of Stuck in Neutral and two copies of his new book, No Right Turn. Then I got them all autographed! I got one copy of Stuck in Neutral autographed for Mrs. MacDonald, because she brought all of her W6 Language Arts classes down to the library for booktalks and Stuck in Neutral was one of the books that we did.

This is a picture of my daughter with Terry Trueman.

One of the new technologies that I was excited to try out was the Playaway. It is like an ipod, but it is a single digital audiobook. In this picture you can see me plugged in and listening to Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Rising. The company was also giving away “ear candy”, i.e. earphones. My daughter and I each took a pair.

Both my daughter and I were excited to learn that Jimmy Gownley, the author/illustrator of the Amelia Rules! comics was also here. So we bought copies of his two new collections and had them autographed to you, the students at King Middle School.

One of the exhibitors was a company that specializes in publishing materials about notable African Americans. As part of the promotion, this famous African American was standing near their booth. Do you know who he is?

HINT: He was a very famous abolitionist.
HINT 2: He wrote and published his autobiography, which was titled, A Narrative of the Life of …
HINT 3: He published an anti-Slavery newspaper called, The North Star.

I’ll check in tomorrow.

I wonder what we’ll discover when we visit the other exhibit hall …

Ms McDaniel

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