Name: Author Jashar Awan at Karl Road Branch
Start: 2025-10-04T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-04T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Columbus Metropolitan Library - Karl Road Branch

Author and illustrator Jashar Awan joins us with his new picture book, Every Monday Mabel, for a family-friendly author talk.
FREE COPIES of Every Monday Mabel will be available courtesy of Battelle, while supplies last. One book per family. Additional books will be sold on site by Cover to Cover Children's Books.
The event is free to the public but due to limited seating, registration is requested: https://events.columbuslibrary.org/event/13924352
📍 Karl Road Branch (5590 Karl Rd.)
⏰ Saturday, Oct. 4 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
📅 SCHEDULE
9 a.m. | Library opens
11 a.m. | Book Giveaway and Author Talk
12 p.m.| Book signing and Meet & Greet
✍️ ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jashar Awan is an author-illustrator who grew up outside Washington, D.C. He has published picture books with W.W. Norton, Simon & Schuster, and Tundra Books.
His works have been recognized with a Geisel Honor, ALA Notables, and Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections and have been included in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, Amazon Editors' Pick, Choose to Read Ohio's Booklist, Texas Library Association 2x2 Reading List, and Bank Street College's Best Books of the Year.
His books have also received numerous starred reviews from Kirkus, Publisher's Weekly, and School Library Journal.
A longtime New Yorker, Jashar moved to Ohio in 2017 with his wife and son, who love drawing and reading, too.
📕 ABOUT THE BOOK
From the creator of I’m Going to Build a Snowman comes a “enthusiastic, delightful” (BookPage, starred review) celebration of community helpers that captures the joy and wonder of being a kid, centering around a precocious girl whose favorite day of the week is Monday.
Every Monday, Mabel wakes up early and peeks out her window to make sure she didn’t miss the one thing she’s been looking forward to the whole week. She drags her chair down the hallway, past her big sister and Mom and Dad, out the door, and waits.
What is Mabel waiting for every Monday? According to Mabel, it’s the best thing in the world. But no one else in her family seems to understand…until they see what’s honking down the street!