Kate Szegda: Book Talk and Workshop
We’re pleased to share information about some last-minute changes to the tween and teen event schedule at this year’s festival. The 12:00 p.m. book talk with Kate Szegda, author of Pharmacy Girl, will now be held on the second floor of the Collingswood Public Library. And it will now include a workshop on the development of communication media from the time of the 1918 flu pandemic (the setting for Pharmacy Girl) to the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop is designed for students in grades 4 to 6.
Kate will be introducing students to the Palmer method of handwriting — so important when that was the main method of communication — and discussing other means of communication in use during the 1918 flu pandemic: newspapers, telephones, and the Trans-Atlantic Cable. Students will then create a timeline showing the development of new communication technologies leading up to the ways we spread the news of the COVID-19 pandemic.
