Books of Wonder

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	January 26th Thursday 4pm - 5pm	LITTLE PIM / BOOKS OF WONDER WORKSHOP .

	January 25th Wednesday 5pm - 7pm	HENRY WINKLER - Ghost Buddy LIN OLIVER - *Ghost Buddy* THEO BAKER - Sound Bender

	January 17^th Tuesday 6pm - 8 pm	FANTASTIC FICTIONS BETH REVIS - *A Million Suns* JULIE CROSS - *Tempest* MEGAN MIRANDA - *Fracture* MAUREEN LIPINSKI - Shadow’s Edge CARRIE RYAN - The Dark and Hollow Places

	December 11^th Sunday 1pm - 3 pm	DECEMBER BOOK BONANZA DAVID WIESNER - *Tuesday 20th Anniversary Edition* JON AGEE - My Rhinoceros DIANE GOODE - Louise the Big Cheese and the Back-to-School Smarty-Pants DAVID SOMAN - The Amazing Adventures of Bumblebee Boy JACKY DAVIS - The Amazing Adventures of Bumblebee Boy BETSY LEWIN - The Little Bitty Bakery TED LEWIN - Stable PETER ACKERMAN - The Lonely Phone Booth

	December 10^th Saturday 3pm - 5pm	BUILD YOUR OWN POP-UP MONSTER WORKSHOP! NEIL NUMBERMAN - Don’t Build a Frankenstein! SAM ITA - The Odyssey

	December 8^th Thursday 6pm -8 pm	GREAT TEEN READS! CECIL CASTELLUCCI - First Day on Earth DANIEL NAYERI - Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow PAUL GRIFFIN - Stay With Me ANNA GODBERSEN - Beautiful Days

	December 4^th Sunday 1pm -3 pm	BAD KITTY HOLIDAY PARTY! NICK BRUEL - A Bad Kitty Christmas

	December 3^rd Saturday 3pm - 5 pm	THE TWITTERHOOD OF THE BUTT-LIFTING PAJANTS COURTNEY SHEINMEL - All The Things You Are SARAH MLYNOWSKI - Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn’t Have) E. LOCKHART - Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks LAUREN MYRACLE - Shine JULIA DEVILLERS - Trading Faces ADELE GRIFFIN - Tighter ELIZABETH EULBERG - Prom & Prejudice MELISSA WALKER - Small Town Sinners JEN E. SMITH - You Are Here TARA ALTEBRANDO - Dreamland Social Club ALAN GRATZ - Fantasy Baseball LESLIE MARGOLIS - Girl’s Best Friend – a Maggie Brooklyn Mystery SUSANE COLASANTI - So Much Closer ROBIN WASSERMAN - Cold Awakening Trilogy DAVID MACINNIS GILL - Black Hole Sun ANN BRASHARES - Sisterhood Everlasting JEN CALONITA - Sleepaway Girls DAN EHRENHAFT - *Americapedia*

	December 3^rd Saturday 12pm -2 pm	POP UP CELEBRATION ROBERT SABUDA - Chanukah Lights PAUL O. ZELINSKY - Knick-Knack Paddywhack CHARISE MERICLE HARPER - The Power of Cute MASHA D’YANS - Razzle-Dazzle Ruby

	November 26^th Saturday 12pm -2 pm	_{HOLIDAY KICKOFF!} JERRY PINKNEY - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star JAMES GURNEY - Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time - The 20th Anniversary Edition ED YOUNG - The House That Baba Built HILARY KNIGHT -Nina in That Makes Me Mad MELISSA SWEET -Balloons Over Broadway SUSAN JEFFERS - Hansel & Gretel LEO & DIANE DILLON - Never Forgotten The Secret River CHARLES SANTORE - The Night Before Christmas

	November 20^th Sunday 1pm 3 pm	SAMMY IN THE SKY with BARBARA WALSH & JAMIE WYETH JAMIE WYETH - Sammy in the Sky BARBARA WALSH - Sammy in the Sky

	November 19^th Saturday 3 pm -5 pm	"ALICE IN WONDERLAND" presented by the Haberdasher Theatre

	November 19^th Saturday 12pm -2 pm	CHAPTER BOOK FUN! RICHARD PECK - Secrets at Sea EMILY JENKINS - The Toys Come Home PAUL O. ZELINSKY - The Toys Come Home C. ALEXANDER LONDON -We Dine With Cannibals MATT MCELLIGOTT - Benjamin Franklinstein JASON PINTER - Zeke Bartholomew: Superspy! KATE McMULLAN - Myth-o-Mania AARON STARMER -The Only Ones ALAN KATZ - Poems I Wrote When No One Was Looking

	November 17^th Thursday 6pm 8 pm	2011 DEBUT AUTHOR BOOKFEST CHARLOTTE BENNARDO (co-author) - Sirenz NATALIE ZAMAN (co-author) - Sirenz TAMI LEWIS BROWN - The Map Of Me VICTORIA SCHWAB- The Near Witch LIA HABEL - Dearly, Departed KATHY MCCULLOUGH - Don’t Expect Magic ALISSA GROSSO - Popular CHRISTOPHER GRANT -Teenie KIERA STEWART - Fetching

	November 15^th Tuesday 6 pm - 8 pm	WE DINE WITH CANNIBALS LAUNCH PARTY! C. ALEXANDER LONDON - We Dine With Cannibals

	November 14^th Monday 7pm -9 pm	NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS NOMINEES GARY SCHMIDT - Okay for Now FRANNY BILLINGSLY - Chime DEBBY DAHL EDWARDSON - My Name is Not Easy

	November 13^th Sunday 1pm -3 pm	FANTASTIC FICTION FOR TEENS TAMORA PIERCE - Mastiff JOHN CONNOLLY - The Infernals RAE CARSON - The Girl of Fire and Thorns MATTHEW CODY - The Dead Gentleman LAUREN McLAUGHLIN - Scored DELIA SHERMAN - The Freedom Maze LEANNA RENEE HIEBER - Darker Still: A Novel Of Magic Most Foul

	November 12^th Saturday 12pm -2 pm	50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH NORTON JUSTER - The Phantom Tollbooth; The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth JULES FEIFFER - The Phantom Tollbooth; The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth LEONARD MARCUS - The Phantom Tollbooth; The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth

	November 10^th Thursday 6pm -8 pm	STAGES ON PAGES STASIA WARD KEHOE - Audition GRETCHEN McNEIL - Possess SHEELA CHARI - Vanished ROSEANNE PARRY - Second Fiddle SOPHIE FLACK - Bunheads BARBARA DEE - Trauma Queen SARA LEWIS HOLMES - Operation Yes JESSICA MARTINEZ - Virtuosity ELISE ALLEN - Populazzi

	November 8^th Tuesday 6pm -8 pm	LAUNCH PARTY OF THE DAUGHTERS JOIN THE PARTY JOANNA PHILBIN

	November 6^th Sunday 3 pm -5 pm	LILY RENÉE, ESCAPE ARTIST TRINA ROBBINS - Lily Renée, Escape Artist LILY RENÉE - Lily Renée, Escape Artist

	November 6^th Sunday 12 pm -1:30 pm	WHAT'S NEW AT THE ZOO? TRAVIS FOSTER - What’s New at the Zoo? PHYLLIS NEWMAN

	November 5^th Saturday 3 pm -5 pm	Tintin & Company – How a legend was born! MICHAEL FARR - Tintin & Company Tintin: the Complete Companion

	November 5^th Saturday 12 pm -2 pm	NOVEMBER BOOK BONANZA CHRIS RASCHKA -A Ball for Daisy *- Farmy Farm* GENE BARRETTA - Zoola Palooza: A Book of Homographs SELINA ALKO - Every-day Dress-up JENNY SLATE - Marcel the Shell With Shoes On DEAN FLEISCHER-CAMP - Marcel the Shell With Shoes On GIDEON KENDALL - Dino Pets Go To School LINDA LODING - The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister KATHLEEN KRULL - Big Wig: A Little History of Hair - The Fartiste PAUL BREWER - The Fartiste BORIS KULIKOV - The Fartiste

	November 3^rd Thursday 6 pm -8 pm	FANTASTIC TEEN & TWEEN FICTION KAREN HEALEY - The Shattering LOUIS L. BUITENDAG - The Bloomswell Diaries MARIANNA BAER - Frost JOCELYN DAVIES - A Beautiful Dark E. ARCHER - Geek Fantasy Novel ANDY MARINO - Unison Spark

	October 30^th Sunday 1 pm -3 pm	FALL PICTURE BOOKS DIVYA SRINIVASAN - Little Owl’s Night LEE HARPER - The Emperor's Cool Clothes LINDSAY BARRETT GEORGE - That Pup JASON CHIN - Coral Reefs

	October 29^th Saturday 3 pm - 4 pm	MONSTER DRAWING WORKSHOP with NEIL NUMBERMAN

	October 29^th Saturday 12 pm -2 pm	GREAT NEW CHAPTER BOOKS GITTY DANESHVARI - School of Fear 3: The Final Exam ELISE BROACH - Missing on Superstition Mountain CHRIS RASCHKA - Seriously, Norman JOSH LEWIS - Super Chicken Nugget Boy & the Massive Meatloaf Man Manhunt ELIZABETH LEVY - Parrots & Pirates MORDICAI GERSTEIN -Parrots & Pirates SCOTT GUSTAFSON - Eddie: The Lost Youth of Edgar Allan Poe RAMIN GANESHRAM - Stir It Up

	October 23^rd Sunday 3 pm - 4 pm	MONSTER DRAWING WORKSHOP with NEIL NUMBERMAN

	October 23^rd Sunday 12 pm -1 pm	*Cast members read Halloween themed storybooks*

	October 22^nd Saturday 12 pm -2 pm	FANTASTIC FICTION SCOTT WESTERFELD - Goliath (Leviathan Series #3) MARYROSE WOOD - Nightshade (Poison Diaries Series) JEFF HIRSCH - The Eleventh Plague SARAH BETH DURST - Drink, Slay, Love JON SKOVRON - Misfit GABRIELLE ZEVIN -All These Things I’ve Done ALISON GOODMAN -Eona

	October 19^th Wednesday 6 pm - 8 pm	PUBLICATION PARTY for You Have Seven Messages STEWART LEWIS


	October 17^th Monday 7 pm - 9 pm	WHAT YOU WISH FOR – A BOOK FOR DARFUR R.L. STINE ANN M. MARTIN KAREN HESSE JEANNE DUPRAU SOFIA QUINTERO MARILYN NELSON NATE POWELL

	October 16^th Sunday 1 pm -3 pm	THRILLS & CHILLS FOR YOUNG READERS! CHRIS GRABENSTEIN - *The Black Heart Crypt* TERRY CASTLE - *From the Grave: The Prayer* SAM ITA - The Odyssey: A Pop-Up Book CHRIS MORIARTY -The Inquisitor’s Apprentice MARK EDWARD GEYER -The Inquisitor’s Apprentice

	October 15^th Saturday 12 pm - 2 pm	JUST FOR LAUGHS PETER BROWN -You Will Be My Friend MARGIE PALATINI - Stuff Hogg, Hogg, & Hog Goldie and the Three Hares JODI MOORE - When A Dragon Moves In RHODE MONTIJO - *The Halloween Kid* FIONA ROBINSON - What Animals Really Like GARY RUBENSTEIN - The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes GEOFFREY HAYES - A Poor Excuse for a Dragon - Patrick in A Teddy Bear’s Picnic & Other Stories MARK SIEGEL - Moving House

	October 11^th Tuesday 6 pm to 8 pm	EXCLUSIVE NEW YORK LAUNCH EVENT NOEL DANIEL *- The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm*


	October 9^th Sunday 1 pm - 3 pm	CELEBRATE FIRE PREVENTION WEEK DON HOFFMAN *- Sparky the Fire Dog*


	October 9^th Sunday 12 pm - 1 pm	A SPECIAL STORYTIME based on THE NEW VICTORY^® THEATRE production of

	October 6^th Thursday 5 pm - 7 pm	LITTLE PIM LAUNCH EVENT JULIA PIMSLEUR - Little Pim: Colors Little Pim: Feelings


	October 2^nd Sunday 1 pm - 3 pm	ARTHUR GOES DIGITAL MARC BROWN *- Arthur Goes Green*

	October 2^nd Sunday 12 pm - 1 pm	A SPECIAL STORYTIME based on THE NEW VICTORY^® THEATRE production of

	October 1^st Saturday 4 pm - 6 pm	THE JOURNEY OF THE NOBLE GNARBLE LAUNCH PARTY DANIEL ERRICO *- The Journey of the Noble Gnarble*

	October 1^st Saturday 12 pm - 2 pm	OCTOBER BOOK BONANZA RICHARD EGIELSKI *- The Sleepless Little Vampire* JOHN ROCCO *- Blackout* BOB SHEA - Dinosaur vs. Library; I am a Shark; *Gilbert Goldfish Wants a Pet* DOREEN CRONIN - M.O.M. (Mom Operating Manual) LAURA CORNELL - M.O.M. (Mom Operating Manual) JACKIE PREISS WEITZMAN - Superhero Joe RON BARRETT - Superhero Joe GIDEON KENDALL - Dino Pets Go To School TEDD ARNOLD - Detective Blue STEVE METZGER - Detective Blue

	September 28^th Wednesday 5pm - 6:30pm	CHOCOLATE ME! PUBLICATION PARTY TAYE DIGGS SHANE W. EVANS

	September 27^th Tuesday 6 pm - 8 pm	PUBLICATION PARTY for MAUREEN JOHNSON

	September 25^th Sunday 3 pm - 4 pm	“MAKE YOUR OWN COMICS” WORKSHOP WITH ARTIST NEIL NUMBERMAN: SESSION 2

	September 25^th Sunday 1 pm - 3 pm	GREAT GRAPHIC TALES! CARLA JABLONSKI - Defiance: Resistance Book 2 GEORGE O'CONNOR - Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory MK REED - *Americus* DAVE ROMAN - Astronaut Academy RYAN SIAS - Zoe and Robot SARA VARON - Bake Sale NEIL NUMBERMAN - Big Hairy Drama (Joey Fly, Private Eye, Book 2)

	September 24^th Saturday 12 pm - 2 pm	GREAT MIDDLE GRADE READS T. A. BARRON - The Book of Magic BENEDICT CAREY - Island of the Unknowns CHARISE MERICLE HARPER *- Fashion Kitty and the B.O.Y.S.: (Ball of Yellow String)* - *Just Grace and the Double Surprise* DAN ELISH *- The School For The Insanely Gifted* H.N. KOWITT - The Loser List *MEG WOLITZER* - The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman

	September 18^th Sunday 3 pm - 4 pm	“MAKE YOUR OWN COMICS” WORKSHOP WITH ARTIST NEIL NUMBERMAN: SESSION 1

	September 17^th Saturday 12 pm - 2 pm	SPACEHEADZ 3 LAUNCH PARTY! JON SCIESZKA - Spaceheadz Book #3 CASEY SCIESZKA - Spaceheadz Book #3 STEVEN WEINBERG - Spaceheadz Book #3

	September 15^th Thursday 6 pm - 8 pm	PIE, KEYS, BURNOUTS, AND TROUBLED BOYS Launch Party for 5 Great New Books! DAVID LEVITHAN - Every You, Every Me JONATHAN FARMER - Every You, Every Me COE BOOTH - Bronxwood SARAH WEEKS - Pie SUZANNE LAFLEUR - *Eight Keys* ADRIENNE MARIA VRETTOS - Burnout

	September 13^th Tuesday 6 pm - 8 pm	WONDERSTRUCK LAUNCH PARTY BRIAN SELZNICK - Wonderstruck

	September 11^th Sunday 2 pm - 4 pm	LOVE, MOUSERELLA PUBLICATION PARTY DAVID EZRA STEIN - Love, Mouserella

	September 10^th Saturday 12 pm - 2 pm	SEPTEMBER BOOK BONANZA LAURENT DE BRUNHOFF - *Babar's Celestville Games* MATTHEW VAN FLEET - Moo! BRIAN STANTON - *Moo!* KEVIN LEWIS - *Not Inside This House!* DAVID ERCOLINI - *Not Inside This House!* LANE SMITH - Grandpa Green and It's a Little Book

	September 9^th Friday 6 pm - 8 pm	SHUT OUT LAUNCH EVENT!!! KODY KEPLINGER - Shut Out

	September 8^th Thursday 5 pm - 7:30 pm	CARLE HONORS ART AUCTION EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION Artists whose work will be on display includes: Lois Ehlert, Steven Kellogg, Jon Agee, Harry Bliss, Chris Raschka, Chris VanAllsburg, Tomi Ungerer, Etienne Delessert, Barbara McClintock, Rosemary Wells -

	September 7^th Wednesday 5 pm - 7 pm	LAUNCH EVENT for The Beginning of After JENNIFER CASTLE- The Beginning of After

	September 6^th Tuesday 5 pm - 7 pm	LAUNCH EVENT for GUARDIANS OF CHILDHOOD series!!! WILLIAM JOYCE - The Man in the Moon

	August 25^th Thursday 2 pm - 3 pm	MONSTER DRAWING WORKSHOP with artist NEIL NUMBERMAN NEIL NUMBERMAN - Do NOT Build a Frankenstein!

	August 11^th Thursday 2 pm - 3 pm	MONSTER DRAWING WORKSHOP with artist NEIL NUMBERMAN NEIL NUMBERMAN - Do NOT Build a Frankenstein!

	5 pm - 7 pm	Publication Party & Book Signing JONATHAN AUXIER - Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

	August 07^th Sunday 1 pm - 2 pm	ImaginOcean Storytime with JOHN TARTAGLIA and a special performance with the cast of *ImaginOcean*

	July 31^st Sunday 1 pm - 2 pm	ImaginOcean Storytime with the cast of *ImaginOcean*

	July 30^th Saturday 4 pm - 6 pm	LAUNCH EVENT FOR WILDFIRE KARSTEN KNIGHT - *Wildfire*

	July 28^th Thursday 6 pm - 8 pm	GREAT SUMMER READS GAYLE FORMAN - Where She Went APRILYNNE PIKE - *Illusions* SARAH PORTER - Lost Voices MELISSA WALKER - Small Town Sinners

	July 26^th Tuesday 6 pm - 8 pm	LAUNCH EVENT FOR AND THEN THINGS FALL APART ARLAINA TIBENSKY - And Then Things Fall Apart

	July 19^th Tuesday 6 pm - 8 pm	LAUNCH EVENT FOR CHARLIE JOE JACKSONS' GUIDE TO NOT READING TOMMY GREENWALD - *Charlie Joe Jacksons' Guide to Not Reading*

	July 17^th Sunday 1 pm - 3 pm	COREY WHALEY - *Where Things Come Back*

	July 16^th Saturday 2 pm - 3 pm	JOHN GRISHAM’S THEO BOONE & THE THRILL OF RIGHTS Live performance by “The Story Pirates” based on the latest book in the John Grisham children’s book series, Theodore Boone: The Abduction will involve members of the audience in their lively, fun-filled performance. We will have 5 copies of Theo Boone:Kid Lawyer, signed by John Grisham which will be given away at the event in a drawing. To win, you must be in attendance.

	July 05^th Tuesday 6 pm - 8 pm	'TWIXT HEAVEN AND HELL LISA DESROCHERS - *Original Sin* COURTNEY ALLISON MOULTON - *Angelfire* LEAH CLIFFORD - A Touch Mortal


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