“Reading for writers is like training for athletes.”
LINDA SUE PARK, A LONG WALK TO WATER
Linda Sue Park is the author of more than two dozen books for young readers, including picture books, middle-grade and young-adult novels, short stories, and poetry. Among her titles are the 2002 Newbery Medal winner A Single Shard, and the New York Times-bestseller A Long Walk to Water. Along with Meg Medina and Grace Lin, Linda serves on the Advisory Board for We Need Diverse Books, a non-profit that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry.
Linda comes to Pittsburgh with Prairie Lotus, a compelling, emotionally engaging novel set in 1880, a half-Chinese girl and her white father try to make a home in Dakota Territory, in the face of racism and resistance to change.
More about Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park’s website
Kirkus Reviews, February 2002
Starred Review of When My Name Was Keoko
Water for South Sudan
Linda Sue Park Interviews Salva Dut
Publisher’s Weekly, October 2010
Q & A with Linda Sue Park
“With compassion, the creators present younger readers with a portrait of a life in which determination is needed just to get enough clean water to drink, a reality for many villagers in South Sudan.”
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
Book Signing
A book signing will follow the program in the Children’s Department of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Books will be available for sale before and after the lecture from City of Asylum Bookstore.
Partner
Foundation Support
Bank of America Charitable Foundation, EQT Foundation, The Grable Foundation, and the Pittsburgh Indian Community & Friends
Media Sponsor
Kidsburgh
