Prophecies, Quests & Bad Tales with Joseph Coelho & Kate DiCamillo

Kate DiCamillo and Joseph Coelho

Prophecies, Quests & Bad Tales with Joseph Coelho & Kate DiCamillo

Kate DiCamillo and Joseph Coelho

3:00pm

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Stories are powerful and those that are the readers, the tellers and the keepers of stories are also powerful. Authors Kate DiCamillo and Joseph Coelho explore all this and more as they discuss their new novels. Kate is a two-time Newbery Medalist, her latest book, The Beatryce Prophecy, a fantastical tale of fate, love and the power of words to change the world. A poet and playwright, Joseph Coelho’s latest series, Fairy Tales Gone Bad, is a funny, deliciously dark, trilogy of twisted classics including Zombierella and Frankenstiltskin. Moderated by Janet Smyth.

Recommended for ages 8 and up.

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TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.

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Stories are powerful and those that are the readers, the tellers and the keepers of stories are also powerful. Authors Kate DiCamillo and Joseph Coelho explore all this and more as they discuss their new novels. Kate is a two-time Newbery Medalist, her latest book, The Beatryce Prophecy, a fantastical tale of fate, love and the power of words to change the world. A poet and playwright, Joseph Coelho’s latest series, Fairy Tales Gone Bad, is a funny, deliciously dark, trilogy of twisted classics including Zombierella and Frankenstiltskin. Moderated by Janet Smyth.

Recommended for ages 8 and up.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.

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Reading

Featured Authors

Kate DiCamillo is one of America’s most revered storytellers. She is a former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and a two-time Newbery Medalist. Born in Philadelphia, she grew up in Florida and now lives in Minneapolis. 

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Joseph Coelho is an award-winning poet, playwright and writer from London. His first poetry collection, Werewolf Club Rules!, won the CLPE Children’s Poetry Award and he has been writing and performing ever since. His picture books include If All the World Were... illustrated by Allison Colpoys and the Luna Loves series illustrated by Fiona Lumbers. His poetry books for children include Overheard in a Tower Block illustrated by Kate Milner and A Year of Nature Poems illustrated by Kelly Louise Judd. The first in the Fairy Tales Gone Bad series, Zombierella, published in 2020. Follow him on Twitter as @Poetryjoe and on Instagram as @josephcoelhoauthor. 

Read more about Joseph Coelho

3:00pm

Sunday, October 31

What to read

The Beatryce Prophecy by , Frankenstiltskin by ,
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