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‘PICTURING CHILDREN’ OFFERS CLOSER LOOK AT KATONAH MUSEUM LECTURE SEPT. 30

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KATONAH, N.Y. — On Sunday, September 30, at 5 pm, the Katonah Museum of Art will host a freewheeling discussion inspired by the current exhibition “Children Should Be Seen.”

The discussion will be moderated by historian and exhibition co-curator Leonard S. Marcus and will include four notable figures from the intersecting worlds of children’s literature and children’s services, who will share their perspectives on the art on view and respond to audience questions.

Attendees can discover what today’s picture books can tell about society’s deepest hopes and fears for children: what future — if any — picture books can have in an Xbox culture; why some picture books become classics and what makes one book better than another; who the most exciting new illustrators are; and why children’s-book art has a place in museums.

Panelists include New York illustrator and picture-book creator Maira Kalman; Westchester County Library System youth services coordinator Judith Rovenger; picture-book author/artist and Yale Medical School professor of psychiatry Lynn Reiser; and I Spy author and magazine editor Jean Marzollo.

Admission is $10 members, $15 nonmembers. The museum is on Route 22 and Jay Street. For more information, www.katonahmuseum.org or 914-232-9555.