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December 2019
Concord Museum – Family Trees: A Celebration of Children’s Literature
Meet some of the accomplished authors and illustrators whose books are featured in Family Trees: A Celebration of Children’s Literature. Explore the decorated trees throughout the Museum’s new Education Center, and visit with authors and illustrators as they sign your books including.
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Brookline Booksmith – Storytime w/ authors Josh Funk, Anika Denise, and Jamie Michalak
Join us for a very special storytime with three local children’s authors, each reading from one of their own books! PLEASE NOTE: Due to limited space in the kids' section this storytime will be downstairs in our Used Book Cellar, which is not wheelchair accessible; we apologize for the inconvenience. By day, Josh Funk (photo credit Carter Hasegawa) writes C++, Java Code, and Python scripts as a software engineer, which he’s been doing for the last twenty years. In his…
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August 2020
Trailblazing Women for Kids with Anika Aldamuy Denise
Meet trailblazing author Anika Aldamuy Denise! Anika will read passages from and discuss the process behind her latest picture book, PLANTING STORIES: THE LIFE OF LIBRARIAN AND STORYTELLER PURA BELPRÉ and from her upcoming picture book, A GIRL NAMED ROSITA about legendary performer Rita Moreno. Join Anika and PBS Books at 2 PM EST today on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/events/721826515323529/
Find out more »September 2020
Los Angeles Libros Festival
Un festival del libro bilingüe para toda la familia. A free bilingual book festival for the whole family. Saturday, September 26, 2020 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Streaming live on Facebook and YouTube.
Find out more »Children Read Too Panel
Tune in LIVE on YouTube to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month with four #kidlit creators, hosted by Adri (@perpetualpages)!
Find out more »October 2020
Live from the Reading Bench (IG Live Event)
Join author Anika Aldamuy Denise in conversation with Latarsha Jones, M.Ed, host of the popular IG platform: The Reading Bench. (Follow @TheReadingBench) Latarsha and Anika will be discussing the picture book, Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré for a special Hispanic Heritage Month conversation.
Find out more »Girl Power Hour!
GIRL POWER HOUR for International Day of the Girl, on October 11th, is a coming together of ladies in kidlit to celebrate girls in kidlit. Tune in LIVE on Facebook (on the Messy Muse page) for a day of picture book readings with strong female characters. (Anika Aldamuy Denise will be reading at 3:30pm)
Find out more »NYPL – KidsLIVE! Event to Celebrate Latinx History Month
Join authors Anika Aldamuy Denise and Tania de Regil for a special KidsLIVE! event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month! Anika’s book, “Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré”, and Tania’s book, “A New Home” will be discussed between the authors and NYPL librarians! Learn about what it’s like to write books, how you can be an illustrator (demonstrated by Tania), and more! Check back soon for event time and link to join us!
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