8:30 a.m.:  Registration, coffee & book sale

9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Program

NEW THIS YEAR: Lower fees, free parking and a new location!

Founders Room, Ferry Administration Building, Pine Manor College. Go to www.pmc.edu/directions for directions to 400 Heath St., Chestnut Hill. Free parking available.

Join us for a wonderful group of speakers and help us bring authors and illustrators into Boston schools.

Speakers include Cynthia Lord, Newbery Honor Award-winning author of children's novels "Rules" and "Touch Blue," as well as several picture books; Janet Wong, poet and author of over 23 books for young people from preschoolers to teens. Her latest projects are poetry eBooks; Gregory Mone, a novelist and science writer for kids and adults. His second children's novel, "Dangerous Waters," is due out in March and centers on one of the passengers on the Titanic. Terri Schmitz, owner of the Children's Book Shop in Brookline, and Christian Porter, librarian at the Park School, will tell us about their favorite new books for spring.

The conference will include coffee and refreshments, an exhibit of new books, and a book sale and signing.

Fees: $65 ($10 less than last year); or $25 for students with valid I.D.; or $40 ($10 less than last year) each person from an institution that joins as an institutional member this year.