At Bookexpo 2017, at a panel titled Truth Is More Painted Than Fiction: Graphic Nonfiction for Young Readers, panelists will explore the topic of graphic nonfiction for young readers. Picture books, comics, and other highly illustrated nonfiction books are a growing phenomenon in children's and YA (young adult) publishing. For example, the graphic memoir March, depicting the civil rights movement through the eyes of John Lewis, became a #1 New York Times bestseller and won the National Book Award. Panelists will discuss questions such as: What makes these works more than simply "easier books"? What is uniquely valuable about learning with images? What is visual literacy? What are readers looking for? What works? What doesn’t? Will schools embrace these formats? How do we market and promote visual nonfiction? Panelists include Rocco Staino of School Library Journal; author and illustrator Roxie Munro; Christopher Llloyd, Publisher, What on Earth Publishing, and Leigh Walton of Top Shelf Productions. Moderated and organized by Susannah Greenberg, Public Relations. Panel date: June 2, 2017 at Bookexpo in New York, NY.

1. Truth Is More Painted Than Fiction
Graphic Nonfiction for Young Readers

2. SPEAKERS:
Organizer, Moderator, Susannah Greenberg, Susannah Greenberg Public
Relations, @suegreenbergpr
Rocco Staino, School Library Journal, Huffington Post, Empire State Center for
the Book, and KidLit TV, @RoccoA
Roxie Munro, Author/illustrator, Roxie Munro Studio, @roxiemunro
Christopher Lloyd,Publisher, Founder of What on Earth Publishing; historian,
educator and author, @WallbookUS
Leigh Walton, Marketing Director for Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW
Publishing, @topshelfcomix

3. Rocco Staino, a Contributing Editor for School Library
Journal, who writes for the Huffington Post, and is the Director
of the Empire State Center for the Book. In November 2014, he
became the host of StoryMakers on KidLit.TV. He is also the
retired director of the Keefe Library of the North Salem School
District in New York. @RoccoA

4. GRAPHICS
IN
NON-FICTION
SOME OF MY FAVORITES FROM OVER THE YEARS

5. PETER SPIER

6. RUSSELL FREEDMAN

7. David Macauley

8. MELISSA SWEET

9. GEORGE O’CONNOR

10. Nathan Hale

11. Roxie Munro, Author/illustrator, Roxie Munro Studio, the author/illustrator of
more than 40 award-winning nonfiction and concept children's picture books, and
three interactive apps, many using "gamification" to engage, teach, and entertain.
Titles include the NY Times Best Illustrated The Inside-Outside Book of New York
City; Mazeways: A to Z; Doors; EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures; Inside-Outside
Dinosaurs; Hatch!; and the upcoming Masterpiece Mix (August 2017). Her books
have been translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, and
Japanese.@roxiemunro

19. Christopher Lloyd, Publisher, Founder of What on Earth Publishing; historian,
educator and author. His book What on Earth Happened: The Complete Story of the
Planet (Bloomsbury, 2008), sold over 500,000 copies. Lloyd is an advocate of
connected learning. His publishing house What on Earth publishes in a unique
innovative format for young people using illustrative timelines called Wallbooks,
which present a broader view of world history and visualize connections between the
past and the present day. This book is part of a series is being launched in the US this
spring, beginning with The Shakespeare Timeline Wall Book. Three more books will
be published this summer -- on Nature, Science and History -- in association with the
American Museum of Natural History. @WallbookUS
www.whatonearthbooks.com

20. Developing a lifelong love
of learning
Christopher Lloyd

21. Lifelong Learning

22. Dangers of Writing
Writing will create forgetfulness in
the learners’ souls, because they
will not use their memories; they
will trust to the external written
characters and not remember of
themselves”.

23. Gestaldt

24. Timelines

25. Wallbooks

26. The Five Wows!
• Big picture
• Craft
• Visualization
• Discovery
• Choice

27. Thank you!
chris@whatonearthbooks.comm

28. Leigh Walton, Marketing Director for Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW
Publishing. First in Portland, then in Seattle, now in New York, he has been representing
his favorite graphic novel publisher for ten years, with duties including marketing,
publicity, copywriting, and editorial. Most recently, he edited and managed the
promotional campaign for the record-breaking March trilogy by Congressman John
Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell.
@topshelfcomix

30. MARCH: BOOK THREE
Nominated for Eisner Award!
May 2, 2017
Congratulations are in order once again for
Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin,
and Nate Powell, as their record-breaking
graphic novel March: Book Three has been
nominated for Best Reality-Based Work in the
2017 Will Eisner Awards.
The trio won last year in the same category for
March: Book Two, while Book Three has
received an unprecedented array of honors,
including the National Book Award, the Printz
Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and
many others.
Join us at the Eisner Award ceremony this
summer at Comic-Con International in San
Diego, July 21, 2017!

31. Thank you! Questions?
Moderator: Susannah Greenberg, Susannah Greenberg Public
Relations, publicity@bookbuzz.com
Speakers:
● Rocco Staino, School Library Journal, Huffington Post, @RoccoA
● Roxie Munro, Roxie Munro Studio
● Christopher Lloyd, What on Earth Publishing
● Leigh Walton, Top Shelf Productions