The conference committees have decided to celebrate viva la difference in reading by eschewing the same old One Book/One (fill in the blank) this year. Instead, celebrate your privilege of choice by reading whatever you want. Wouldn’t it be great if everyone came to this annual conference with a great, unique, and different book to talk about? Let’s aim for that!

A good place to start in creating your 2008 book list is this year’s conference authors:

Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson (Peter and the Starcatchers)
Tomie dePaola (My First Passover)
Kevin O’Malley (Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates)
Denise Fleming (The Cow Who Clucked)
Rosemary Wells (The Gulps Go Green)
John Erickson (Hank the Cowdog)
Jenna Bush (Ana’s Story)
Elizabeth Noble (Alphabet Weekends)
Deborah Crombie (Dreaming of the Bones)
Cornelia Read (The Crazy School)
Kathy Patrick (Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life)
Gail Giles (What Happened to Cass McBride)
Maureen Johnson (Girl at Sea)
Susan Vaught (Trigger)
Will Weaver (Full Service)
Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) (2007 Michael L. Printz award winner)
Rod Espinosa (Neotopia) (TTR.08 artist)

Check out the program to see who else we have lined up.

(Written by Annie at Parr Library in Plano)