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Some Events to Know About

  
Join Us! 
 
We're putting together some children's events as well as our usual adult readings and talks. I'd love to see you here for some of them! It's getting toward the holidays so if you need anything to prepare for them, gifts, ideas or what have you, let us know.

If you'd like to have us post a wish list for your classroom or library, please let us know. We've dedicated a place on our website where we can do just that and every year we have wonderful customers who would like to donate a book to a teacher or library. 
 

    Luan  
New Books
The World is Round by Gertrude Stein with illustrations by Clement Hurd. Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of its first printing, this facsimile edition of Stein's only children's book tells the story of a young girl named Rose who contemplates about who, what, and why she is. This stunning volume replicates the original 1939 edition to a T, including all of Clement Hurd's original blue-and-white art printed on the rose-pink paper that Stein insisted upon. Also featured here are two essays that provide an inside view to the making of the book. The first, a foreword by Clement  Hurd's son, author and illustrator Thacher Hurd, includes previously unpublished photographs and sheds light on a creative family life in Vermont, where his father and mother, author Edith Thacher Hurd, often collaborated on children's books. The second essay, an afterword by Edith Thacher Hurd, takes readers behind the scenes of the making of
The World Is Round, including the numerous letters exchanged between Hurd and Stein as well as images of Stein with the real-life Rose and her white poodle, Love.

 


Chasing Utopia; A Hybrid by Nikki Giovanni $19.99  Poetry and prose.  Teaching contemporary poets? Just need a little poetry each day?

With Chasing Utopia, Nikki Giovanni, one of America's most celebrated artists, demands that the prosaic-flowers, birdsong, winter-be seen as poetic.The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a healer and a national treasure. But if her reputation is writ large upon the national stage, her heart resides in the everyday where family and lovers gather, friends commune, and those no longer with us are remembered.

 

And at every gathering there is food, food as sustenance, food as aphrodisiac, food as memory. A pot of beans are flavored with her mother's sighs, this sigh part cardamom, that one the essence of clove; a lover requests a banquet as an affirmation of ongoing passion; an homage is paid to the most time-honored appetizer, soup.

 

  Author Events

 

Meet Erin Dealey

Sunday, November 17, 4pm 

 

 

"No one expected me to write books some day. Not in a million years. Neither did my teachers."

Erin's new book is Deck the Walls, a great take off on the classic holiday song. She will answer questions about writing for children, lead a rousing sing along (aka read aloud), teach us how to make hats, and play a fun game. So why would you not want kids to know about this?

 

Bonus! We'll be asking customers at her event where they or their kids go to school. The school with the most kids in attendance will win a school visit from Erin. That's a $250 value that she's generously offering.  Below is a bit about her visits, and for more info her website is listed. Spread the word! 

 

Erin Dealey's school assembly presentation includes interactive theater games and a mini-play featuring 10 pre-selected students (and sometimes teachers...) from the audience. (No rehearsal necessary!) The simple-to-learn theater activities based on themes and character from either Deck the Walls, Little Bo Peep Can't Get To Sleep, or Goldie Locks Has Chicken Pox are fun for all ages.

School visits are flexible and may be tailored to your needs.  

For a whole lot more information, please go to  Erin's website page for teachers.

 

 

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Sunday, December 1 at 11:30am
Peter Elman
a morning of music!

seasons
Peter Elman is the co-author of Seasons, Rhymes in Time with illustrations by Sara Kahn. He'll be here with his guitar and we'll rock the house for kids age 4 and up. Come on in for great way to get your Sunday going!
Peter Elman -pianist, composer and record producer -grew up in Washington, D.C. and first learned to play music by listening to his transistor radio.

Late at night when the airwaves were clear he could hear the sounds of rock n' roll, rhythm & blues and country music coming from such faraway places as Chicago, Memphis and New Orleans. From these roots he absorbed the many styles of popular American music and was inspired to create his own. 

 

 

Wednesday, December 8, 7pm, join us to hear the future. We traditionally have hosted a reading for Mills writing students and will be doing so again this year! It's always interesting to hear what the students are writing and to see who then is published within the next couple of years. Join us. 



HEY!

Did you know that we have an educator's discount for everything you buy, classroom related or not?  We do.  Just let us know you want to be in the program, tell us where you teach, and that's it. No card to carry, nothing to remember but your name.