Derrick Barnes | Authors at the Library

Sat Nov 15 2025 at 10:30 am to 12:30 pm UTC-05:00

Columbus Metropolitan Library - Hilliard Branch | Hilliard

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Derrick Barnes | Authors at the Library
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Award-winning author Derrick Barnes presents his beloved picture books in this family-friendly author talk at the Hilliard Branch.
A book giveaway will be available to families while supplies last, courtesy of Battelle. Additional books will be sold on site by Cover to Cover Children's Books.
📍 Hilliard Branch (4500 Hickory Chase Way)
⏰ Saturday, Nov. 15 from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
9 a.m. | Library opens
10:30 a.m. | Book Giveaway and Author Talk
11:30 a.m.| Book signing and Meet & Greet
The event is free and open to all, but registration is requested.
🔗 RSVP: https://events.columbuslibrary.org/event/13924813
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Derrick Barnes is a National Book Award Finalist for his graphic novel Victory. Stand!-Raising My Fist For Justice, which also won the YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award, and a Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning picture book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut which received a Newbery Honor, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor, the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, and the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers. In 2020, he became the only author to win the Kirkus Prize twice for the New York Times bestseller, I Am Every Good Thing, which also won a Charlotte Huck Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor. Derrick is also the creator of the New York Times bestselling companion picture books, The King of Kindergarten and The Queen of Kindergarten. He is a native of Kansas City, MO, but currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his enchanting wife, Dr. Tinka Barnes, and their four sons, the Mighty Barnes Brothers.
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Columbus Metropolitan Library - Hilliard Branch, 4500 Hickory Chase Way,Hilliard, Ohio, United States

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