Families and children are invited to meet their favorite authors and illustrators in children’s literature during the “Meet the Authors Community Gala,” on Friday, January 30 from 7 – 9 p.m. at Central Library in the Clowes Auditorium, 40 E. St. Clair Street.
The evening’s festivities begin at 7 p.m. with presentations from each author. The authors will autograph their works from 7:30 – 9 p.m. Book sales will be provided throughout the evening by Kids Ink Children’s Bookstore.
Cental Library will close at 6:00 p.m. Friday, January 30, 2009 and then doors will re-open for this event at 6:45 p.m.
Call 275-4099 for more information about this free Library event.
Brian Selznick
Author and illustrator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which earned him the Caldecott Medal for illustration. He wrote and illustrated The Houdini Box and has illustrated such works as Frindle by Andrew Clements, The Doll People by Ann Martin and Laura Godwin, and The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley, which received a Caldecott Honor.
Nikki Grimes
Bestselling author and multiple winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award for such children’s books as Jazmin’s Notebook, Dark Sons, Meet Danitra Brown and The Road to Paris. Her most recent children’s book is the New York Times bestseller, Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope, a biography of the President-Elect. Her other popular recent work is When Gorilla Goes Walking.
