What a Sight!
Author Jon Scieszka launched a week-long tour of U.K. festivals and schools to promote his new science series for middle-graders, Frank Einstein (Abrams/Amulet), at the Bath Festival of Children’s Literature on October 6. Scieszka was the featured author at the festival’s closing event. From l. to r.: author Jeff Norton and Scieszka enjoy a picturesque moment in front of the historic Bath Abbey with Jodie Lewis and Tina Mories, Scieszka’s publicity team from Abrams’s London office.
‘Bookends’
Celebrity-turned picture book author Bethenny Frankel visited Bookends Bookstore in Ridgewood, N.J., on September 23, as part of her tour for Cookie Meets Peanut (Little, Brown). Frankel’s 14-year-old dog, Cookie, who inspired the book, also made an appearance at the store. Frankel read from the book, answered audience questions, and signed books at the event. Here, the author is “bookended” by store owners Pat and Walter Boyer.
A Very Happy Book Launch
Fourth and fifth grade students from the Potomac and British Washington Schools (among other students from the general public) attended a launch event for the eighth book in Rachel Renee Russell’s comic-novel hybrid series, Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Happily Ever After (S&S/Aladdin) at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., on October 1. The author (l.) took a break from signing books for a photo-op with student Sydney Myers and Russell’s daughters Erin (center) and Nikki.
Love at First ‘Peck’
While in Minneapolis to accept the Great Lakes, Great Reads children’s book prize during the Heartland Fall Forum, Andrea Beaty, author of Iggy Peck, Architect visited schools in the area and toured the Wild Rumpus bookstore. Andrea met all of the store animals during her visit, but it was a very special moment when she got to hold her namesake, Iggy Peck, the store’s new Silkie Chicken.
