Name: Pam Muñoz Ryan | Authors at the Library
Start: 2026-02-12T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-12T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, OH, United States, Ohio 43215

$Pam Mu\u00f1oz Ryan | Authors at the Library$

Join award-winning author Pam Muñoz Ryan in a talk about her beloved historical fiction novel, "Echo".
📍 Main Library (96 S. Grant Ave.)
⏰ Thursday, Feb. 12 from 6-8 p.m.
🔗 This event is free and open to all, but registration is required: https://events.columbuslibrary.org/event/15030788
✍️ See the 2026 Author Lineup: https://www.columbuslibrary.org/authors-at-the-library/
SCHEDULE
5:30 p.m. | Seating and Book Sale open
6:00 p.m. | Author Talk
6:45 p.m. | Audience Q&A
7:00 p.m. | Book sale and signing
Free parking available in Main Library's attached garage, while available. Books will be sold on site by Cover to Cover Children's Books.
This author talk is presented in collaboration with and funded by the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pam Muñoz Ryan is an American author and the 2026 U.S. nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award. She is the author of Echo, a Newbery Honor book and the recipient of the Kirkus Prize. She has written over forty books, including the novels Esperanza Rising, Becoming Naomi León, Riding Freedom, Paint the Wind, The Dreamer, Echo, and Mañanaland. She is the author recipient of the National Education Association’s Civil and Human Rights Award, the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for Multicultural Literature, and is twice the recipient of the Pura Belpré Medal and the Willa Cather Award.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Lost and alone in the forbidden Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives, binding them by an invisible thread of destiny. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together. How their suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo will resound in your heart long after the last note has been struck.