This week, Raina Telgemeier’s Ghosts is in the house (of worship); Dog Man hits the road; Mac Barnett and Adam Rex show how their book was made; members of a unique orchestra visit New York; cosplayers get into character at Salt Lake City Comic Con; and Elizabeth Eulberg solves the case of a missing dog.
Holy Ghosts!
Green Apple Books hosted a packed launch event for Raina Telgemeier’s Ghosts on September 13 at St. Anne Catholic Church in San Francisco. The event marked the start of Telgemeier’s nationwide tour for her new middle grade graphic novel, which will take the SF resident to more than 20 cities.
It’s a Man! It’s a Dog! It’s Dog Man!
Dav Pilkey kicked off his “Dog-gone Spectacular Superhero Tour” for the first book in his new series, Dog Man, with stops in Cleveland (Pilkey’s hometown) and Atlanta. Pilkey was the “Kidnote” speaker at the Decatur Book Festival, held at the Decatur High School Performing Arts Center, where local kids got to meet the eponymous superhero, as well as the one and only Captain Underpants.
Got It Made
Adam Rex (l.) and Mac Barnett recently concluded their multi-city tour for How This Book Was Made (Disney-Hyperion), which began with their visit to the Decatur Book Festival on September 3, and included stops in Nashville, Wichita, Houston, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Raleigh, N.C., where (seen here) they met readers and signed books at Quail Ridge Books.
Beautiful Music
Members of the Recycled Orchestra, which features instruments created from materials mined from a landfill in Paraguay, traveled from the South American country to New York City for the premiere of Landfill Harmonic, a documentary about the orchestra. In addition to performing at the premiere in Manhattan on September 9, the kids also visited local schools, along with author Susan Hood, who wrote Ada’s Violin, a picture book based on the orchestra and one of its first members, Ada Ríos, who is seen here with Favio Chávez, the orchestra’s conductor. Simon & Schuster also donated signed copies of Ada’s Violin to each member of the orchestra who came to New York.
Under Attack!
Author Matthew J. Kirby defended his life after being “attacked” by a cosplayer dressed as a character from his new series based on the Assassin’s Creed franchise, during Salt Lake City Comic Con. During the convention, Kirby kicked off the launch of the first book in the Assassin’s Creed novel series, Last Descendants, and spoke on three panels.
The Case of the Missing Bookstore Dog
On tour for The Great Shelby Holmes, the first in a middle grade series, Elizabeth Eulberg met with fans at Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma, Calif., on September 13. Attendees took part in a scavenger hunt arranged by the bookstore. In keeping with the book’s story about a dog-napping, Eulberg led attendees on a scavenger hunt to locate a dog that went “missing” in the store. The pug, Arya, is actually the unofficial store dog, who belongs to manager Matt Brown.
