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Thalia Book Club Camp offers up-close interaction with renowned children's book authors and illustrators, book discussions, and book-related field trips around the city. This blog follows the camp's activities.

Thalia Book Club Camp Week Two Day Five

By Camp Staff
Published on July 21, 2017

Friday arrived so quickly! And, boy, our last day was a good one. In the morning, we had a visit from Adam Shaughnessy, author of The Unbelievable FIB: The Trickster’s Tale. He told two stories about how he wrote the book, and asked us all to decide which one was true. The (condensed) stories were [...]

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Thalia Book Club Camp Week 2 Day 4

By Camp Staff
Published on July 20, 2017

Today at camp the kids got a chance to meet the authors of the book The Two Naomis,  Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick, who taught the kids how to let their imagination run free, like they did with their book. The two authors wrote this book, after meeting at a writers’ conference, without really having anything [...]

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Thalia Book Club Camp Week 2 Day 3

By Camp Staff
Published on July 19, 2017

We’re half way through our second week at Thalia Kids Book Club Camp!   Today, we had an AWESOME visit from the author of The Great Shelby Holmes; Elizabeth Eulberg! After the campers played games this morning, Elizabeth came in and talked to us about how she became a writer (her friend Dav Pilkey- the [...]

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Thalia Book Club Camp Week 2 Day 2

By Camp Staff
Published on July 18, 2017

  Wow! Wow! WOW! What a day! After a very fun and funny mime game in the Thalia, we returned to the Studio to meet Daniel Nayeri (Publisher, Children’s Group,) and Colleen Venable (Art Director,) of Workman Publishing, the publishers of Spy on History: Mary Bowser and the Civil War Spy Ring. But first, Colleen [...]

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Week 2, Day 1!

By Camp Staff
Published on July 17, 2017

What a fabulous first day of Book Club Camp! We started off with some get-to-know you games, so we could learn a little more about our fellow campers, and have some fun.  After a rollicking round of The Great Wind Blows, we played Icebreaker Bingo.  Each camper had a bingo sheet to fill in (The [...]

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Thalia Book Club Camp Week 1 Day 5

By Camp Staff
Published on July 14, 2017

Wow! What a great week of camp! It’s hard to believe that it’s already over. Today, we began (as usual) with several rounds of games in the Thalia theater and some quiet time. But more importantly, our author that visited today was Wendy Wan-Long Shang! Wendy was so cool and she gave us so much [...]

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Thalia Book Club Camp Week 1, Day 4

By Camp Staff
Published on July 13, 2017

An eventful day at the Thalia Kids Book Club Camp! We started off with an adventure down to the Rubin Museum with C. Alexander London (author of We Are Not Eaten by Yaks) to learn about animals and animal symbolism in Himalayan Art.  The Rubin Museum opened 2 hours early for us, so we had [...]

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Thalia Book Club Camp Week 1 Day 3

By Camp Staff
Published on July 12, 2017

Looks like the Greek gods blessed us with a great third day! George O’Connor, author of “Artemis, Wild Goddess of the Hunt,” spent the morning and afternoon with us – geeking out about Greek mythology, showing us secret sketches, and teaching us how to illustrate like him! Before George came , we went to the [...]

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Thalia Book Club Camp Week 1 Day 2

By Camp Staff
Published on July 11, 2017

Another great day at camp! We started by playing a few games in the Thalia Theater (“Handshake Murderer” was followed by the thematically appropriate “Ghosts”). After some excess energy had been dispensed with, we prepared for our field trip to Penguin Random House Audiobooks by reading an excerpt from The Matchstick Castle by Keir Graff. Campers [...]

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Thalia Book Club Camp Week 1 Day 1

By Camp Staff
Published on July 10, 2017

Wow! What a wonderful first day of camp! It was almost as if the Thalia Studio were transformed into a magical parallel universe… hmm… We began the day with some games that transformed our campers into Giants, Elves, and Wizards before engaging in some more traditional ice-breaker games like Get-to-Know-You Bingo. We spent the rest [...]

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