Author event! Kelly Corrigan, Claire Corrigan Lichty & Jennifer E. Smith

About the book:

From bestselling author Kelly Corrigan and her daughter debut author Claire Corrigan Lichty comes a new picture book about a determined young inventor!Marianne's days are filled with schedules, structure, and soccer. There's just one problem: Marianne is a maker. She needs every minute of her weekends to scheme and dream, draw and design, to build and rebuild! This is the story of how a creator with a crackerjack imagination finds a not-so-great way to skip practice and create her masterpiece. But will her dad understand?Told in delightful rhyme that bounces across George Sweetland's gorgeous collage-style illustrations (chock full of hidden gems,) Marianne the Maker is sure to kindle the creative spark that lives inside all of us.

About the author:

Kelly Corrigan is a New York Times bestselling author of four books about family life, the host of her own PBS show and a podcast called Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Like Claire, she can’t stop making — books, friends, paintings, puzzles, meals, mistakes… She is now working on some new writing, including a screenplay, as well as interviewing neat people doing good work for the pod, now in its 5th year,

Claire Corrigan Lichty just graduated from The University of Virginia where she is an Echols scholar and probably the school’s only double major in Computer Science and Drama. Making is her life — computer programs, stand up routines, screenplays, code, songs, algorithms, pizzas… She has set up life in Los Angeles where she is working at a Hollywood production studio.

Jennifer E. Smith is the bestselling author of over a dozen books, including The Unsinkable Greta James, and the young adult novels The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight and Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between, both of which have been adapted for film. She earned a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

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