LIBRARY NOTES
 
Steven Kroll
Neighborhood of Stories
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Members' Room; $5 per person, at the door
Steven Kroll grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a wonderful ethnic stew of Jewish, Latino, Chinese, and Viennese. Wandering those streets, experiencing the delicatessens and the movie theaters, the corner drug store and the corner book shop, "I began to recognize a world outside my own that would make me want to tell stories, travel, and be a writer." In this event, Mr. Kroll will talk about how ideas for stories happen and how those ideas turn into books, focusing on several of his own works.
Steven Kroll is the author of 94 books for children, everything from picture books to American history to young adult novels. He is often asked where all his ideas come from. "The answer is frequently: your neighborhood," he says. "Look around your neighborhood. Story ideas are lurking."
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