This event has passed.Hilarious Adventures Saturday, November 21, 2015 @ 8:00 amPrometeo (Building 1, 1st Floor, Room 1101) 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States Spaceships! Pranksters! Alien Adventures! An International Order of Disorder! Adventures in space and on earth take a funny turn in the not-to-be-missed antics of Mac Barnett‘s The Terrible Two and Craig Thompson’s Space Dumplins. Presented in partnership with: Free Add to Schedule + Google Calendar+ Add to iCalendar Details Date: Saturday, November 21, 2015 Time: 8:00 am Cost: Free Event Category: Children Authors Craig Thompson Craig Thompson is an Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist best known for his books Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, Blankets, Carnet de Voyage, and Habibi. Thompson has received three Eisner Awards, four Harvey Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package. Space Dumplins (Graphix) is Thompson's debut book for young readers about a plucky heroine on a mission to save her dad. For Violet Marlocke, family is the most important thing in the whole galaxy. So when her father goes missing while on a hazardous job, she can't just sit around and do nothing. To get him back, Violet throws caution to the stars and sets out with a group of misfit friends on a quest to find him. But space is vast and dangerous, and she soon discovers that her dad is in big, BIG trouble. With her father's life on the line, nothing is going to stop Violet from trying to rescue him and keep her family together. Mac Barnett Mac Barnett is a New York Times bestselling author of over 18 books for children, including two Caldecott-Honor-winning collaborations with Jon Klassen: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn, which also won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award. He writes the Brixton Brothers series of mystery novels and, with Jory John, The Terrible Two (Amulet Books), the story of a school prankster who meets his match. Venue Prometeo (Building 1, 1st Floor, Room 1101) 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States + Google Map
Details Date: Saturday, November 21, 2015 Time: 8:00 am Cost: Free Event Category: Children Authors Craig Thompson Craig Thompson is an Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist best known for his books Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, Blankets, Carnet de Voyage, and Habibi. Thompson has received three Eisner Awards, four Harvey Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package. Space Dumplins (Graphix) is Thompson's debut book for young readers about a plucky heroine on a mission to save her dad. For Violet Marlocke, family is the most important thing in the whole galaxy. So when her father goes missing while on a hazardous job, she can't just sit around and do nothing. To get him back, Violet throws caution to the stars and sets out with a group of misfit friends on a quest to find him. But space is vast and dangerous, and she soon discovers that her dad is in big, BIG trouble. With her father's life on the line, nothing is going to stop Violet from trying to rescue him and keep her family together. Mac Barnett Mac Barnett is a New York Times bestselling author of over 18 books for children, including two Caldecott-Honor-winning collaborations with Jon Klassen: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn, which also won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award. He writes the Brixton Brothers series of mystery novels and, with Jory John, The Terrible Two (Amulet Books), the story of a school prankster who meets his match.
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