Motheread / Fatheread Day

Saturday, March 24
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Water Street Terrace Room
in the Charlottesville Ice Park

Fun for the whole family with authors, storytellers and performers!

Motheread and Fatheread is a family literacy program that uses children’s literature to help all members of the family learn to read and strengthen family relationships through the sharing of stories.

10 am – Poet, "The Sugar Lady," Arlene Carter/Pounds

10:45 am – Author Kathy May, Molasses Man

12 noon – Mark Teague, illustrator, and Josef Beery, making
books

12:45 – Akaela S. Michels-Gualtieri and her mother, Dia Michels, Born to Be a Sister

1:30 – Phil Hoose, author and songwriter

11:15AlbemarleKids.com Junior Journalist Workshop
Join your friends at AlbemarleKids.com for the 2nd annual Junior Journalist Workshop! Kids ages 4-18 are invited to be Junior Journalists and create the summer issue of The Clubhouse Times, a special pull out page written and illustrated by kids for kids. Junior Journalists will don press badges to interview writers, poll the audience, take photographs and more during this fun workshop on making a newspaper! (This workshop is very popular with limited space. Please register online at www.AlbemarleKids.com to guarantee participation.)