{"id":1793,"date":"2019-03-24T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T09:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2019-03-24T09:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T09:45:35","slug":"lone-star-out-and-about-dfw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Out and About in DFW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif\">On Friday, September 22, librarians Tabatha Pope and Kristine Hall&nbsp;from the&nbsp;Lone Star Lit blogger team joined hundreds of other educators at&nbsp;the North Texas Teen Book Festival Ed Day in Las Colinas.&nbsp;Special guests included Gordon Korman, Elizabeth Acevado, Raina Telgemeir, Soman Chainani, Holly Goldberg Sloan, David Bowles, Adam Gidwitz, and many more MG and YA authors. In a continuing education session, Sam Houston State University professor Dr. Karin Perry shared practical and exciting ways for educators to engage young readers from upper elementary through high school.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/P1080296.JPG\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:113px; margin:2px; width:150px\" title=\"Elizabeth Acevedo\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/P1080307.JPG\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:113px; margin:2px; width:150px\" title=\"Raina Telgemeier\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/P1080315.JPG\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:113px; margin:2px; width:150px\" title=\"Jerry Craft\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/P1080303.JPG\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:113px; margin:2px; width:150px\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/P1080314.JPG\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:113px; margin:2px; width:150px\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/P1080323.JPG\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:113px; margin:2px; width:150px\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/P1080325.JPG\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:113px; margin:2px; width:150px\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/P1080282.JPG\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:113px; margin:2px; width:150px\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/IMG_3598b.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:103px; margin:2px; width:150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><em>(Left&nbsp;to Right: Elizabeth Acevedo, Raina Telgemeir, Jerry Craft, Terri Libenson, David Bowles, Suzanne Crowley, Mari Mancusi, Daniel Jose Older, Soman Chainani, Holly Goldberg Sloan, Kristine Hall, Tabatha Pope)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif\">On Saturday, September 23, Lone Star Literary Life joined over thirty exhibitors&nbsp;representing North Texas writing&nbsp;groups, events, programs, and services in a fun-filled day at WORDfest, held in Hurst at the Tarrant County College Northeast Campus. Lone Star Lit blogger team members Jenn Belden and Leslie Storey helped connect LSLL to new&nbsp;readers and writers in the exhibitor hall while Kristine Hall led the&nbsp;Author Publicity and Partnerships session. One lucky reader ended her day at WORDfest by taking home a logo tote&nbsp;bag filled with nineteen books&nbsp;from the Lone Star Lit bookshelves.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/IMG_20190323_144059395.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:113px; margin:2px; width:150px\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/IMG_20190323_155326144.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:113px; margin:2px; width:150px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"color:null\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif\"><em>(Left to Right: Leslie Storey, Kristine Hall, Jenn Belden; Kristine with prize winner Ann)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif\">Lone Star Lit team members were out and about in DFW attending the North Texas Teen Book Festival Educator&#8217;s Day and WORDfest.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,8,136,135],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lonestarliterarylife","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-nttbf","tag-wordfest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}