Theater of the Picturebook: Roger Mello Webinar from the carle and Simmons

Roger Mello, friend of USBBY and illustrator for the 2021 U.S. International Children's Book Day (ICBD) poster, will deliver the 2024 Mary Nagel Sweetser Lecture for the Eric Carle Museum for Picture Book Art on  July 25, 2024 at 7 - 8 pm EDT. .

Hosted by Simmons University and Carle, the lecture marks the launch of the 50th anniversary year of Children’s Literature studies at Simmons. Mello will be joined by Cathryn Mercier, director for the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons.

The 2024 Sweetser Lecture is associated with Mello's first exhibition in the United States; Fuzuê! Invention & Imagination in the Art of Roger Mello, on view at The Carle from June 16, 2024 - January 5, 2025. 

Learn more and register for the virtual program.