Actually my local library did a release party of Lemony Snicket's last book in the 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' series. But if I could choose an author for a release pary it would be either Eion Colfer (of Artemis Fowl fame)or D.J. MacHale (of the Pendragon series) which are both favorites in my family.

I meant 'release party' not 'release pary'; God it sounds like I’m going to sword fight the author—thrust, pary, thrust!

Let's have Stephen King Day! You might think that Halloween would be the appropriate time for that ghoulish soiree...but no. It should be at a time of year unexpected...like the first day of Spring. You know a little dark to balance the light. We could all wear Cujo masks and practice our b-movie screams.

Please fix the headline! It's Ramona Quimby.

Megan, eeek! Thank you...

I've always been rather fond of the too-often uncelebrated Edward Eager. Also, Lloyd Alexander could use some media attention--now that Susan Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising" series is going to be loosely adapted in film, shouldn't Prydain be next?

i think we should all celebrate me. i'm a bestselling author, single mother of 2 great kids, gorgeous and smart to boot. when exactly is christina arneson day?

I'd be in for Haruki Murakami day. We could all dress up like sheep with stars upon thars!

anne lindbergh. her books were always so fun and creative. i used to gobble up everything she wrote when i was younger. it's a shame that she's disappeared into the children's books black hole. travel far pay no fare was probably one of my favorite books as a kid.

another author i loved as a kid was cynthia voigt. those were less fantastical and more about the characters, but i felt they were all books that didn't talk down to kids, and in fact, expected us to understand very grown-up situations and feelings.

I am a huge fan of the children's series by Michael Hoeye featuring a crime solving, adventure seeking, watch mending mouse named Hermux Tantamoq.