ANCA 2010 Annual Meeting with Virginia Pilegard

Children's book author, Virginia Pilegard

The Arne Nixon Center Advocates invite everyone to their annual meeting, featuring picture book author Virginia Walton Pilegard. The program will be held on Friday, September 17, at the Henry Madden Library, 5200 N. Barton Avenue, Fresno. The evening will begin with a reception, featuring Chinese hors d'oeuvres, wine, and soft drinks at 6 p.m. The meeting will begin at 6:45 p.m.

Virginia Pilegard began writing for children while teaching math to third and fourth graders. Her Warlord series of seven picture books features well researched adventure stories set in ancient China, each demostrating a math concept.

The Warlord's Puzzle and The Warlord's Beads are listed on the state of California's core curriculum literature list for mathematics. Pilegard has traveled to China to do research for the series and for her newest book, The Emperor's Army, a picture book history of the terra-cotta warriors.

To find out how a girl who was raised in the mountains north of Fresno, in a two-room cabin with neither electricity nor plumbing, grew up to be a researcher and writer about ancient China, please join ANCA and Virginia Pilegard on September 17.

This event is open to the public and there is no fee to attend. Free parking is available. Reservations are required by sending email to mrianto@csufresno.edu or by calling (559) 278-8116. Petunia's Place bookstore will sell the author's books at the event for autographing.