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We hope you are getting excited for our next event at the Harry Bennett Library on April 25, from 11 - 2. Below is more information about our event coordinator and moderator, Laura Toffler-Corrie, and the wonderful authors and author/illustrators on the panel.


Laura Toffler-Corrie is a freelance writer who has written for publications such as Parenting, Twins, New Age Journal, Hudson Valley, and a number of others. She holds an M.S. in school psychology, as well as an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University. She has taught writing classes at New York University, Brooklyn College and Pace University. Laura lives in Westchester, New York, with her husband, thirteen-year-old twin daughters and a large, noisy variety of pets ranging from five pounds to seven hundred pounds (the really heavy pets live in the yard). Laura’s hilarious debut middle-grade novel, The Life and Opinions of Amy Finawitz, Eighth Grader, will be published by Roaring Brook Press in Fall 2010.

Marc Tyler Nobleman is the author of more 70 books for children and one for adults. His picture book Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman is the first-ever biography for any age of writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, the teens who dreamed up the world's first superhero. It received multiple starred reviews, made the front page of USA Today, and was named an ALA Notable Book 2009. He regularly writes humor for Nickelodeon. He is also a cartoonist whose work has appeared in more than 100 publications, seven of which you’ve heard of including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Good Housekeeping.

Susanna Reichis an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults. Her books include Painting the Wild Frontier: The Art and Adventures of George Catlin, Penelope Bailey Takes the Stage, José! Born to Dance, and Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso. She has received the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, International Latino Book Award, NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor, ALA Notable, ALA Best Book for Young Adults, School Library Journal Best Book, Scripps Howard Best Book, Kirkus Best Young Adult Book, Booklist Top Ten Arts Book for Youth, and many other honors. Susanna is Account Services Manager at Raab Associates Inc., the nation's leading children's book publicity and marketing agency, where she has worked since 2000. She served for many years on the SCBWI Metro New York Steering Committee and is currently Co-Chair of the Children's and Young Adult Authors Committee of PEN American Center, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees. Susanna speaks nationally at schools and industry conferences. Photo by Laurel Golio.

Patricia Hubbell is the author of a number of award-winning picture books for children, as well as ten volumes of children's poetry. Her poems appear in more than 300 anthologies and textbooks worldwide. Her most recent picture books are Boats: Speeding! Sailing! Cruising!, My First Airplane Ride, and Police: Hurrying! Helping! Saving! Ms. Hubbell is a native of Easton Connecticut where she still lives. Photo by Dolly Curtis.

Jamison Odoneis a graduate of the Art Institute of Boston and lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He can often be found walking through the woods with a notebook, searching for ideas. Jamison spends many of his waking hours painting. Honey Badgers was conceived while waiting for a friend at a doctor’s office. Publisher’s Weekly described it as making “a deep bow to Maurice Sendak, with its somber palette and heavily crosshatched, pen-and-ink and watercolor wash illustrations. But the affectionate, dreamy text is his own.” In 2008 he Illustrated The Bedtime Train, written by Joy Cowley of New Zealand.


Hans Wilhelm:Author and illustrator of “I’ll Always Love You” and 200 more books for children and adults with over 42 million copies in print. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and have won numerous international awards and prizes. Many of his stories have become successful animated television series that are enjoyed by children all over the world. For more info please visit www.hanswilhelm.com and www.ChildrensBooksForever.com