Cost of the program ($3800) includes all travel, fees, 3 credits tuition, accomodations, breakfasts, and an international student ID card (which carries with it minimal insurance needed).

Lunch and dinner (with the exceptions of two banquets) are individual and not paid for as part of the program. Students are advised to bring $40 per day for food expenses.

Any questions please contact Dr. Bond at elbond@salisbury.edu

July  22 -- 24 Iceland  (arrive in Iceland 6:42 AM). 

Take flybus to visit the Blue Lagoon.       

July 22 stay at Viking Hotel. 

10 AM -- Visit Culture House-- see Icelandic sagas and edddas

11 AM -- Meet Gunnella, Bruce McMillan  and Sigurður A. Magnússon
          

                 

3 PM -- Take charter bus to Eyrarbakki on the southern coast

Met with Fridrik Erlings author of Benjamin Dove for walk and dinner at the Red House (cost of dinner not included)

  

      

July 25:  Flybus to airport.  Arrive in Copenhagen at 12:45.   Train to Copenhagen.  Stay at Danhostel.

Freetime

4:30 PM -- meet with Lene Kaaberbøl in a Danhostel meeting room.      

12:15 -- Meet with Bodil Bredsdorff author of The Crow-Girl and Kate Mahaffy translator 

1:00 -- Lunch at Fredericksborg Castle   Menu: Leonoras frokostanretning -- smoked salmon and green asparagus, shrimps with mayonnaise, chicken salad with bacon, brie, bread and butter; beer or soda, and coffee (130 Dkr)

July  27:  Leave Copenhagen around 8:30 reach Hamburg  (5 hour drive/ferry; luggage/books no longer needed can be stored at Danhostel)

3:30  Meet with  Birte Mûller                

and Julia Goschke        at Mûller's studio then go for coffee and a boat ride.

Dinner with Dietlof Reiche author of the Freddy series and Ghostship     

Stay at Holiday Inn   (This is a 4 star hotel with a pool and a sauna!)

July  28  Leave Hamburg by 9 AM. for Bremen (2 hour drive)

Freetime from 11 AM to 3 PM in Bremen

July  29  Cologne. Stay at Jugendherberge Köln-Riehl

10 AM --  Chocolate Museum

Noon -- visit Picturebook Museum at Burg Wissem castle

Meet with Norman Junge   

Meet with  Hannah Jansen   

July  30  Leave for Kassel by 8:30AM  (2 hours and 10 min)

11 AM visit Bruder Grimm Museum

Noon -- Lunch at Buch-Oase with Brigitte Endres-Tylle    

DOCUMENTA art-exhibition

Proceed to Schlitz (60 min.) and meet with Gudrun Pausewang  
Spend night in Fulda (25 min.) at the Hotel Peterchens Mondfahrt

July  31  Leave for Frankfurt by 9 AM  (1 hour 15 min)

Proceed to Heidelburg  (55 min)

4:30 -- Meet at Albrecht Rissler's studio in Dossenheim (11 min) with Geraldine Elschner, Wolf Schroeder, and Martina Theisen
 

           

Dinner with authors at "Neuen Schwanen" in Dossenheim (on own)

Stay at Jugendherberge Heidelberg

August 1  Leave Heidelberg by 8:30 AM

 Lunch in Stuttgart (1 hour 15 min.)

1:30 -- Visit with Joachim Freiderich   and with Mrs. Heinke Schoeffmann at Thienemann

Freetime in Ellwangen

Stay at Hotel Königin Olga

Dinner at hotel

August 2  Meet with Inge Bart-Grözinger author of Something Remains and visit her school      

August 3   Leave early in the morning for Munich (1 hour and 30 min.

Meet with Rotraut Suzanne Berner

10 --  Tour of  International Youth Library   with Jean-Jacques Greif 
12:30 -- Lunch at Blutenburg Castle
1:30 -- Ride to Dachau with author Mirjam Pressler       
2:30 -- Tour of Dachau

5 -- Talk with Mirjam Pressler

7 -- Dinner with Jean-Jacques Greif     

Stay at JH Munchen Neuhauson

August 4  leave by 8:30 AM for  Salzburg, Austria  (2 hours)

Lunch at Laschenskyhof with Gudrun Albertsmeir editor at Minedition and with authors Werner Thuswaldner and Kate Westerlund

    

Visit to Silent Night Chapel in Oberndorf

Old Town Salzburg

Leave Salzburg by 4 PM.  Spend night in Munich at JH Munchen Neuhauson

August 5 – 7  Leave Munich for Berlin

Checkpoint Literacy -- European Conference on Reading

August 6:  Visit the Reichstag at 6 PM.

August 7:  Dinner cruise

Meet with Daniela Bunge
Visit  LesArt

August 8–10  Warsaw

Banquet with authors sponsored by Egmont Polska.

Meet for dinner with Polish children's authors and illustrators including

 Anna Onichimowska     

August 10: 10 AM -- Visit the Museum of Children's Literature (in the Culture Palace)

Stay at IBIS Warsaw

August  10  Flight to Malmö. Stay at

Take train from Copenhagen airport to Malmö, Sweden

11 AM -- Visit with Marten Sanden in Malmö at the public library.  Litteralund presentation.  Anna Alsmark presents the Forfattarcentrum.

11-- 13 Copenhagen

August 12:  Visit Children's Literature Center at Danish University of Education with professor Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg and librarian Marie Frederiksen

Meet with Danish authors:  Søren Jessen     

August 13:  Visit Rasmus Bregnhoi's studio  

Kenneth Bøgh Andersen author of Lasd tjans  

Stay at Danhostel

August 14 return to BWI