This week, Don Tate promotes a picture book art exhibition; Tahereh Mafi and Ransom Riggs share a stage; Mo O’Hara tours for her new middle grade series; and author Grace Byers delivers an empowering message to girls.
A Storied Exhibition
Author-illustrator Don Tate visited Oxford, Ohio, in conjunction with the art exhibition “Telling a People’s Story: African-American Children’s Illustrated Literature,” which is on display at the Miami University Art Museum until June 30, 2018. Tate’s illustrations are among the work of 32 other illustrators. Here, Tate walks a group of visiting teachers and librarians through the exhibition.
A Meeting of Minds
Tahereh Mafi is currently on a nationwide tour for Restore Me, the fourth title in her Shatter Me series (HarperCollins). On March 8, Mafi visited the Yellow Box Church in Naperville, Ill., for an event with her husband, author Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children).
A ‘Fangtastic’ Book Tour
Mo O’Hara is currently on a two-week tour to promote her chapter book series, My Fangtastically Evil Vampire Pet (Feiwel and Friends), a spinoff of the My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series. With Hicklebee’s Bookstore, O’Hara toured schools on March 13, including (seen here) Allen School, San José Unified School District. By the end of her tour, O’Hara will have visited nearly 5,000 middle school students nationwide.
Girl Power
Author Grace Byers celebrated the launch of her picture book, I Am Enough (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray), illus. by Keturah A. Bobo, on March 6 at Barnes & Noble Tribeca. Among the guests were girls and women brought to the event by the organization Saving Our Daughters, which works with girls from multicultural backgrounds to connect them with books and the arts. Byers is closely involved with the organization’s efforts to help empower young women in her community.
