Seldom is there one limiting element or one path to achieving literacy. Join award-winning children’s author Carmen Agra Deedy as she carries attendees on the precipitous path of a young child struggling to acquire language, an elementary student’s life-changing encounter with a literary masterpiece, the rendezvous that would dispel a phobia of words, and the educators encountered along the way, who facilitated and motivated her toward an acquired love of words.