Children's Holiday Tea
The Burlingame Library Foundation presented our second annual Children’s Holiday Tea on Sunday, December 4, 2011, at the Easton Branch. Wisdom and Wonder, our Burlingame Library lions, welcome more than 150 children of all ages to celebrate the holidays with delicious “tea fare” and musical entertainment in a festive winter wonderland setting.
There were two separate 'Tea Parties' each featuring a different author.
Morning Tea - Seating 1:
10am to noon
featuring Children’s book illustrator LeUyen Pham
LeUyen Pham (pronounced LeWin) was born in Vietnam, in 1973, and settled in the United States in 1975, when her family fled Saigon.
Growing up in Southern California, LeUyen began drawing at an early age. She graduated in 1997 with a degree in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and began work as a layout artist for DreamWorks Feature Animation.
In 1999, LeUyen left DreamWorks to pursue children's book illustration full time. She has since become a prolific and best selling illustrator of many children’s books including Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio and Freckleface Strawberry by Julianne Moore. She has also written and illustrated her own works, including Big Sister, Little Sister which chronicles her own relationship with her older sister LeChi and was originally designed as a birthday present for her.
She has illustrated picture books, board books, chapter books and graphic novels and has won several awards. One of Uyen's great pleasures is traveling. She has visited Southeast Asia, Australia, Africa, Russia, and Europe, to name a few. She has lived in Paris and volunteered in Russia, teaching English and computer skills to children. Her main goal is to touch each continent (Antarctica included) in the next few years. She sketches everywhere she goes.
LeUyen now lives and teaches in San Francisco with her husband and two sons. Please visit her whimsical website: www.leuyenpham.com.
Afternoon Tea - Seating 2:
2pm to 4pm
featuring Children’s author Bob Barner
Bob Barner is an award winning children’s book author, illustrator and presenter who has published over 25 books.
Bob has been drawing since he was three years old. He graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design, then moved to Boston where he was an art director at several advertising agencies and design studios. He was hired to help comic strip creator Al Capp draw Li'l Abner and studied with Milton Glaser at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Bob has won many awards including the Parents Choice Award and the Teachers Choice Award. His work has been chosen several times for the Society of Illustrators Original Art Exhibition in New York and in 2004 he was honored as a San Francisco Library Laureate.
He enjoys speaking to young readers at schools and libraries around the world. Bob lives in San Francisco with his wife Catherine. Please visit his delightful website: www.bobbarner.com
Sponsor
Generously underwritten by Gymboree Corporation
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All proceeds will benefit the Library’s children’s programs and collection.