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My Uncle Emily
My Uncle Emily
My Uncle Emily
Award Winning author
Jane Yolen
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My Uncle Emily
 

Saturday, May 2, 10 a.m.
At the Emily Dickinson Museum
280 Main Street, Amherst
www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Saturday Morning Fun!
 

Join us for a reading and booksigning to celebrate Jane Yolen's new book, My Uncle Emily, a children's story based on the relationship between Emily Dickinson and her young nephew Gilbert.  Light refreshments will be served.  The event is free and open to the public.

In My Uncle Emily, Yolen spins an imaginative story of Emily Dickinson's young nephew Gilbert as he struggles through a difficult day at school and at home. Gilbert calls his Aunt "Uncle" because it is a family joke, but it is just the beginning of his problems as he attempts to defend his creative and unusual Aunt to his schoolmates. Through his battles and his Aunt's poetry, Gilbert learns a lesson in what matters most.

Jane Yolen and illustrator Nancy Carpenter bring to life 19th-century Amherst and the Dickinson family homes--the Homestead and The Evergreens--in this beautiful and charming children's book.

This program is part of the Big Read: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, a pilot initiative created by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Poetry Foundation to celebrate great American poets and the nation's historic poetry locales. The Emily Dickinson Museum is presenting more than a dozen programs this spring to invite readers everywhere to become newly acquainted with or delve more deeply into Emily Dickinson's poetry.
 
For more information about The Big Read or the Yolen booksigning, contact Cindy Dickinson, Director of Interpretation and Programming, at 413-542-8429, or CLICK HERE.
 
Emily Dickinson Museum
280 Main Street
Amherst, Massachusetts 01002
413-542-8161