This event is co-sponsored by the [url=http://www.scbwi.org/]Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators[/url] (SCBWI).

Speaker: YOSHIDA Yurika, Japan Foreign-Rights Centre

Along with a talk by a literary agent specializing in export of children’s book rights from Japan, this event will introduce the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), an international organization offering a variety of services to people who write, illustrate, or share a vital interest in children’s literature. The SCBWI ([url=http://www.scbwi.org]http://www.scbwi.org[/url]) acts as a network for the exchange of knowledge among writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, agents, librarians, educators, booksellers and others involved with literature for young people. SCBWI maintains two regional chapters in Japan—in Okinawa and in Tokyo.

SCBWI Tokyo Regional Advisors writer Linda Gerber and illustrator John Shelley will provide an explanation of SCBWI.

Date: February 26, 2005 (Sat.)

Time: 3:00-5:00 P.M. (doors open at 2:00 P.M.)

Place: Tokyo-Azabudai Seminar House, Osaka Keizai Hoka Daigaku Bldg., 4th Fl.  1-11-15 Azabudai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0041

Access: Kamiyacho Station, Hibiya Line, exit 1 (Tokyo Tower direction). See [url=https://www.swet.jp/ee_2023/images/uploads/pdf/maps/seminarhousew.gif]map[/url]

Fee: ¥1,000 for SWET and JAT members, ¥1,500 for non-members