Thank You, IRA 53rd Annual Convention Sponsors

The International Reading Association gratefully recognizes its 53rd Annual Convention sponsors and thanks them for their generous contributions and continued support.

Platinum Sponsors

McGraw-Hill Education
Convention Tote Bags

The Pearson Foundation
A Celebration of Honoring Legends of Urban Education

Verizon Foundation
Alice Walker
Fourth General Session Speaker

Gold Sponsors

Pearson
Convention Badge Holders

Scholastic Inc.
Internet Café

Bronze Sponsors

Forrest T. Jones & Company
Board/Staff Event – The Carter Center

Great Source Education
Omni Hotel at CNN Tower
Door Drop

Holt McDougal
Registration Tote Insert

Random House Children’s Books
Registration Tote Insert

SRA/McGraw-Hill
Hotel Key Cards at the Omni Hotel at CNN Tower
and the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel

Weekly Reader
Registration Tote Insert

Keynote Sponsors

Farrar Straus Giroux

Suzanne Fisher Staples
Young Adult Literature Luncheon

HarperCollins Children’s Books

Jamie Lee Curtis
Opening General Session Speaker

Gail Carson Levine
Special Featured Speaker

Holiday House Inc.

Gail Gibbons
Primary Literature Luncheon Speaker

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

David Baldacci
Special Featured Speaker

Sherman Alexie
Book and Author Luncheon Speaker

Penguin Group USA

Rafe Esquith
Third General Session Speaker

Scholastic Inc.

Walter Dean Myers and Alfred Tatum
Special Featured Speakers

Christopher Paul Curtis
Annual Awards Banquet Speaker