Shenandoah Valley Reading Council

www.svreading.org

an affiliate of the Virginia State Reading Association and

the International Reading Association

 

 

KATIE SMITH MILWAY

Here's a video site on ABC News' Person of the WeeK:

Katie Smith Milway, the author for our Young Author Celebrations: 

 http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=748476

 

 

    Katie Smith Milway lived and worked in Africa during the years 1984 – 1993.  She says she truly fell in love with the sounds, smells, peoples, and lands.  She can remember nights under the stars playing music with herders and their children and afternoons visiting with village women and girls, laughing and munching on roasted crickets.  In her book One Hen, she tries to capture the richness of these memories.

The story is based on the life of Kwabena Darko, who, with the help of a small loan, grew into the largest chicken producer in an agriculturally-poor Africa.  One Hen attempts to inspire kids to “can-do” compassion; to expand their view about the role they could play in helping themselves and others.  Katie says that she delights in teaching kids about the country of Ghana, the setting of the story, and about how kids from different cultures can share the same dreams and paths to achievement.

Go to www.onehen.org  to learn more about microfinancing for kids, to read the story, take a quiz, play games, and to make beads to help people in other countries become entrepreneurs.       Information from papertigers.org/interviews/archived_interviews/kmilway.html accessed 12/14/2009.

Text Box: Shenandoah Valley Reading Council’s Young Authors’ Celebration
 
                        Author:  Katie Smith Milway
 
                        Bath County Celebration: Tuesday morning, April 20, 2010
 
                        Southern Division:  Tuesday, April 20, 2010    4:00-6:00pm   
                                                              Wilson Memorial High School
 
                        Northern Division:  Wednesday, April 21, 2010    4:00-6:00pm
                                                              Bridgewater College
 
                        SVRC Banquet:  Wednesday, April 21, 2010    7:00pm
                                                       Bridgewater College