About this Event
What do you get when you bring together kids with popular mid grade authors? You get a day of fun, games, and lots of laughs!
In partnership with the Georgia Center for the Book and the Dekalb County Public Library, we invite your family to an afternoon of bookish fun, games, crafts, and general wackiness! Participating authors include keynote speaker Gene Yang (The Books of Clash series), Chris Grabenstein (Mr. Lemoncello's Libary series), and Beth Lincoln (The Swifts series) with more author announcements coming soon! With interactive games like Truth or Dare and Pictionary, this is a family friendly that is not to be missed!
This event is free to attend and registration is required. Books for each author will be available for purchase and signing at the event or can be pre-ordered at the time of registration.
About the authors:
Gene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. He was named a National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress in 2016, and advocates for the importance of reading, especially reading diversely. His graphic novel American Born Chinese, a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner, has been adapted into an original series on Disney+. His two-volume graphic novel Boxers & Saints won the LA Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist. His nonfiction graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, received an Eisner award and a Printz honor. His other comics work includes Secret Coders (with Mike Holmes), The Shadow Hero (with Sonny Liew), and Superman Smashes the Klan and the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (both with Gurihiru). In 2016, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Chris Grabenstein is the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Mr. Lemoncello series, the Welcome to Wonderland series, and many other books. He is also the coauthor of many page-turners with James Patterson, including the Max Einstein series, and of Shine!, which he cowrote with his wife, J.J. Grabenstein. Chris lives in New York City. Visit Chris at ChrisGrabenstein.com and on Twitter at @CGrabenstein.
Beth Lincoln was raised in a former Victorian railway station in the North of England. Her childhood fears included porcelain dolls, the Durham panther, and wardrobes that looked at her funny. She grew neither tall nor wise, and never learned to play an instrument—but she did write stories, a bad habit that has persisted to this day. When she isn’t writing, Beth is woodcarving, or making a mess of her flat, or talking the nearest ear off about unexplained occurrences. Her favorite things include ghosts, crisps, and weird old words like bumbershoot and zounderkite.
The Swifts was Beth’s debut novel. It grew out of her love of etymology, the gleeful gothic, and classic M**der mysteries. She lives in Newcastle upon Tyne with her partner and hopefully, by the time you are reading this, a dog.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
DeKalb County Public Library Decatur Branch, 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 21.47
