The three speakers and the master of ceremonies have been announced for the Children’s Author Breakfast at next year’s BookExpo America. The emcee will be Jamie Lee Curtis, author of several picture books including the forthcoming This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are and Where We Came from (Workman). In addition to Curtis, the speakers will include Sabaa Tahir (A Torch Against the Night, Razorbill); Gene Luen Yang (Secret Coders: Secrets & Sequences, First Second); and Dav Pilkey (Dog Man, Scholastic).
The Children’s Author Breakfast will take place on Friday, May 13 at 8:00 a.m. in the Special Events Hall of McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill.