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    Menena Cottin
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    Seminar on Children's Literature 2017

    The 4th Seminar on Children's Literature and Reading of the Miami Book Fair was held on Saturday, November 18, 2017. This event is organized by the Fundación Cuatrogatos and the Ibero-American Authors Program of the Miami Book Fair of Miami Dade College. On this occasion the central theme was Challenges of Books for Children and Young People in Turbulent Times. The poster for this Seminar was created by the Venezuelan illustrator and author Menena Cottin.

    The program of the Seminar was as follows:

    Stories From Here and There. 25 Ibero-American Children's Narrative Authors
    Panel with César Sánchez Ortiz (Spain), Sergio Andricaí­n (Cuba-United States), Iliana Prieto (Cuba-United States) and José Ignacio Valenzuela (Chile). Presentation of the homonymous book published by the CEPLI of the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the Cuatrogatos Foundation.

    We Presented To the Publishers
    Panel with Pablo Larraguibel (Editions Ekaré Europe), Aina Otero Barrios (MTM Editors), and Eva Jiménez (Editorial Flamboyant). Coordination: Eddy Dí­az Souza, (Cuba-USA).

    Literature for Young People: Spanish Books for Generation Z
    Panel with the Spanish writers Care Santos. Luis Leante and Yolanda Arrieta Malaxetxebarria (Spain). Coordination: Juan Carlos Rodrí­guez (Cuba-USA).

    Literature, A Space in Which We Can All Recognize Ourselves
    Lecture by Yolanda Reyes (Colombia).

    Censorship in Venezuela: Children's Literature and Ideological Battle
    Panel with Menena Cottin and Fanuel Hanán Dí­az (Venezuela).

    As a preamble to the Seminar, on November 17 there were writers meetings with children readers of public schools in Miami. The authors José Ignacio Valenzuela, Cristina Rebull, Rita Rosa Ruesga and Antonio Orlando Rodrí­guez participated in these meetings.

    Collaborators

    Miami Book Fair

    Miami Book Fair

    Miami Book Fair, , organized by Miami Dade College, is the largest annual literary festival in the United States.

    Department of Bilingual Education, Miami-Dade County Public Schools

    Department of Bilingual Education, Miami-Dade County Public Schools

    Miami-Dade County Public Schools is a public school district serving Miami-Dade County, in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the largest school district in Florida, and the fourth largest in the United States. M-DCPS offer optional international studies programs and bilingual education in Spanish, French, German, Haitian Creole, and Mandarin Chinese.

    Santillana USA, based in Miami, Florida, is one of twenty-two subsidiaries of Grupo Santillana, the largest educational publisher in the Spanish-speaking world.

  • Images gallery

    Images gallery

    These images showing different moments of this event organized by Cuatrogatos Foundation as part of his work in favor of reading, literature and arts in Miami.

  • Video gallery

    Video gallery

    Videos of this event organized by the Cuatrogatos Foundation to contribute to education and culture in our community.

    Spanish author Care Santos speaks in the 4th. Seminar on Children's Literature and Reading.

    Spanish author Yolanda Arrieta speaks in the 4th. Seminar on Children's Literature and Reading.

    Spanish author Luis Leante speaks in the 4th. Seminar on Children's Literature and Reading.
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