Keynote Speaker: Timothy Travaglini

 

Timothy Travaglini is the Director of Children's Acquisitions for Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company focused on publishing digital editions of well-established backlist titles. Open Road features the books of Virginia Hamilton, Jean Craighead George, Caroline B. Cooney, Lois Duncan, Patricia C. Wrede, Lois Lenski, Robert Munsch, Joan Lowry Nixon, Rosemary Wells, Bernard Evslin, Dan Gutman; the Boxcar Children, Franklin the Turtle, the Berenstain Bears, and the modern reboot of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan.

Since 1994, Timothy Travaglini has worked in trade marketing for Scholastic, Inc.; been a bookseller for Books of Wonder, an all-children’s bookstore in New York City; and has edited for Henry Holt and Company, Walker & Company, and G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group. He is the editor of the New York Times #1 bestseller GOODNIGHT GOON, New York Times bestseller THE RUNAWAY MUMMY, and FURIOUS GEORGE GOES BANANAS by Michael Rex; the FANGBONE: THIRD GRADE BARBARIAN series by Michael Rex; The Youngest Templar trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Michael P. Spradlin; DREAMDARK: BLACKBRINGER and DREAMDARK: SILKSINGER by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor; a Washington Post Best Children’s Book of the Year FLYGIRL by Sherri L. Smith; The Foundling’s Tale trilogy (formerly titled Monster Blood Tattoo) by D. M. Cornish; the BENJAMIN FRANKLINSTEIN series by Matthew McElligott & Larry Tuxbury; many picture books by Patrick O’Brien such as YOU ARE THE FIRST KID ON MARS and CAPTAIN RAPTOR AND THE MOON MYSTERY; EARTH MOTHER by Ellen Jackson, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; ONE WITCH by Laura Leuck, illustrated by S. D. Schindler; many of the novels of Janette Rallison such as JUST ONE WISH, and ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE, WAR, AND HIGH SCHOOL; the reissue of Newbery-Honor winner ENCHANTRESS FROM THE STARS by Sylvia Louise Engdahl; and UNCLE BOBBY'S WEDDING by Sarah S. Brannen.