It's a Wrap!

Tomie will give a prepared speech when he accepts the 2011 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award at the American Library Association convention in New Orleans in late June. The speech has to be submitted to THE HORN BOOK by April 1 so that it can be published in the July issue of THE HORN BOOK.

It has to be recorded in early April so that recordings are ready to be given to the attendees of the Caldecott Newbery Wilder Awards Dinner.

Tomie finished work on the speech this past weekend.

A profile of Tomie will also be published in the July issue of THE HORN BOOK. Tomie asked Barbara Elleman, author of TOMIE DEPAOLA, HIS ART & HIS STORIES, to write the profile. Barbara just sent her finished piece to THE HORN BOOK.

It seems as if everyone has completed their assignments!