Diane Frankenstein, author of Reading Together, Everything You Need to Know to Raise a Child Who Loves to Read and a champion for strategic literacy, will spend Thursday, November 14 with almost 100 family and children’s librarians from across the State of Connecticut. The conference, designed to provide both inspiration and practical knowledge on the value of conversational reading and parent engagement, will take place at Gateway Community College in New Haven. Stefan Pryor, Connecticut’s Commissioner of Education, will welcome the group in the morning in recognition of the important connection between conversational reading, early learning and school success.