Penguin Young Readers at BEA 2016

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BEA 2016 is just around the corner!! We’re seriously excited about our schedule this year, and we can’t wait to bask in the book love with all of you! Read on for all of our author events and signings.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11TH

UIC FORUM

4:00 – 5:00 pm SLJ Day of Dialog Author Signing

PANELS

11:15 – 12:00 pm “Truth Be Told: Big Questions in Middle Grade Fiction and What Adults Keep From Children” with Adam Gidwitz – The Inquisitor’s Tale

3:45 – 4:45 pm “What Came First, the Idea or the Image?: Creativity at Play in Today’s Picture Books” with Michelle Cuevas and Erin Stead – The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles.

THURSDAY, MAY 12TH

AT THE PENGUIN BOOTH #2433

9:30 am Erin Stead and Michelle Cuevas – The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles (Table 4)

10:30 am Ransom Riggs – Tales of the Peculiar (Table 2)

1:30 pm Adam Gidwitz – Inquisitor’s Tale (Table 4)

1:30 – 2:30 pm Tahereh Mafi – Furthermore (Table 2)

4:00 – 5:00 pm Loren Long – Little Tree (Table 1)

ABA Lounge

1:45 – 2:45 pm Loren Long – Little Tree

PANELS

10:00 – 10:45 am YA Editor’s Buzz, Namrata Tripathi – Thieving Weasels and Julie Strauss-Gabel – Spontaneous (Room W184B)

3:30 – 4:30 pm “PBS Presents: Young Adult Reads” with David Arnold – Kids of Appetite

AT TABLE #11

3:30-4:30 pm Oliver Jeffers signing – Once Upon an Alphabet

FRIDAY, MAY 13TH

ABA LOUNGE

10:00 – 10:45 am Sabaa Tahir – A Torch Against the Night

AT THE PENGUIN BOOTH #2433

11:00 – 12:00 pm Billy Taylor – Thieving Weasels (Table 1)

11:00 – 12:00 pm Aaron Starmer – Spontaneous (Table 3)

2:00 – 3:00 pm Sabaa Tahir – A Torch Against the Night (Table 1)

2:00 – 3:00 pm David Arnold – Kids of Appetite (Table 3)

2:30 – 3:30 pm Berkeley Breathed – Bill the Cat (Table 2)

3:00 pm Richard Peck – The Best Man (Table 1)

4:00 – 5:00 pm Rosemary Wells – Ten Kisses for Sophie (Table 1)

PANELS

10:00 – 10:30 am YA Buzz Author Panel, Billy Taylor – Thieving Weasels and Aaron Starmer – Spontaneous (Uptown Stage)

4:15 – 4:45 pm Newbery Panel with Richard Peck (Uptown Stage)

7:00 pm “Best-Selling YA Author Panel” with John Corey Whaley – Highly Illogical Behavior, Sabaa Tahir – A Torch Against the Night, and David Arnold – Kids of Appetite (The Book Stall)

SATURDAY, MAY 14TH

AT THE PENGUIN BOOTH #2433

12:00 – 1:00 pm Ransom Riggs – Tales of the Peculiar poster signing (Table 1)

12:15 pm Sabaa Tahir – Autographing

4:00 – 5:00 pm Ruta Sepetys – Salt to the Sea (Table 1)

THE LIT LOUNGE

1:00 – 2:00 pm Tahereh Mafi Sampler Signing – Furthermore

PANELS

11:00 – 12:00 pm “What is light without darkness? Balancing good and evil in YA literature” with Sabaa Tahir and Melissa de la Cruz

1:15 – 2:00 pm Historical YA Fiction Panel with Ruta Sepetys (Salt to the Sea)

1:45 – 2:45 pm “YA Blockbusters: From Books to Film and Beyond” with Richelle Mead (The Glittering Court) (W470) (signing to follow 3:00 – 4:00 PM in autographing area)

2:45 – 3:45 pm “Reality Bites: Contemporary YA Takes the Stage” with John Corey Whaley (Highly Illogical Behavior) and David Arnold (Kids of Appetite) (signing to follow 4:00 – 5:00 PM in autographing area)