Tickets for Hoffman’s talk alone are $30. The literary weekend is sponsored by RJ Julia Booksellers of Madison and costs $150 to attend. at The First Congregational Church of Madison, 26 Meeting House Lane, Madison.
Check availability and buy tickets at .īooks by the Sea, two days of events that include talks by best-selling novelist Alice Hoffman and debut author Laura Sims, a luncheon, discussions of new fiction and more, will take place Nov. Tickets are $50 plus tax and include a copy of the book. at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St., New Haven, They will discuss their debut collaboration, “The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience,” about women who have inspired them, such as Greta Thunberg, Dorothy Height, Diana Nyad, Rachel Carson, Harriet Tubman and many others. The Runaway Toilet was published by Penguin Random House in 2013.Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton will be in conversation with RJ Julia Booksellers founder Roxanne Coady on Oct. And in 2011, together with illustrator Jenny Cooper, she won a Storylines Notable Book Award for Ria the Reckless Wrybill (Penguin Group New Zealand, 2010). In 1999 she won the South Island Writer’s Association National Children’s Story Competition. In 1986 she won the Timaru Herald Home Station Festival Short Story Award. She and illustrator Jenny Cooper have collaborated on several picture books and the ‘zany illustrations’ that Cooper did for Harry’s Hair (Mallinson Rendel, 2011) make it another firm favourite for the author.ĭuring her writing career Buxton has won a number of key awards. A review in the Evening Post (May, 1997) said Buxton had ‘written a memorable story about children taking charge and having adventures’ with ‘unexpected surprises’. I was sad to finish it and leave them all behind’. Her favourite is Donkey Dust (Mallinson Rendel 1997), ‘because I got to know the characters very well as I wrote it. Since then she has written over 130 learning-to-read books, which have been used in schools around the world about 150 stories, plays, poems and articles for the iconic School Journal and a number of children’s stories for broadcast on National Radio.Īs well as educational books, she has written numerous books for trade publication. Her interest in writing came to fruition in 1976 with the publication of her first children’s book, The Red Overalls (Herstory Press, 1976). She trained as a teacher and taught at schools in the Canterbury region on and off from the 1970s until 2002, when she became a fulltime writer.
Buxton, Jane (1947–) is an experienced children’s writer who has also had a long teaching career.
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