This event has passed.Sun, Fun and a little Mystery: Summer Adventure Stories Saturday, November 18, 2017 @ 2:30 pmWembly Wordsmith’s Storytorium (in Children’s Alley) 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States Summer can be the most magical time of year—literally. Summer will never be the same in Matt Holm’s Swing It, Sunny; Mariko Tamaki’s Lumberjanes: Unicorn Power!; and Kim Dwinell’s Surfside Girls. Add to Schedule + Google Calendar+ Add to iCalendar Details Date: Saturday, November 18, 2017 Time: 2:30 pm Event Category: Ages 8-14 Authors Kim Dwinell (Dwinell, Kim) Kim Dwinell is an illustrator/animator/graphic novelist who also teaches classes at California State University Long Beach. Dwinell likes stories more than the beach. Almost. Maybe it's a tie. She first had a career as a beach lifeguard, and then a career in animation (The Swan Princess, Cats Don't Dance, Hercules, Mulan and Tarzan) and now combines her two loves in her first graphic novel, Surfside Girls: The Secret of Danger Point (Top Shelf Productions). Things are getting weird in Surfside for Samantha. After swimming through a secret underwater cave, Sam starts to see things. Like ghosts. And pirates. And maybe something even scarier! Can she and her friend Jade get to the bottom of this mystery in time to save their town? Mariko Tamaki (Tamaki, Mariko) Mariko Tamaki is an artist and writer known for her graphic novel This One Summer, a Caldecott Honor Book and Printz Award winner, among other notable novels. She is the author of Lumberjanes: Unicorn Power! (Lumberjanes #1) (Amulet Books). Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin—Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley—love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen, and go on supernatural adventures. That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella’s, where the woods contain endless mysteries. Today is no exception. When challenge-loving April leads the girls on a hike up the TALLEST mountain they’ve ever seen, things don’t go quite as planned. For one, they didn’t expect to trespass into the lands of the ancient Cloud People, and did anyone happen to read those ominous signs some unknown person posted at the bottom of the mountain? Also, unicorns. Matthew Holm (Holm, Matthew) Matthew Holm is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of more than 35 books for children. He is the co-creator (with his sister, Jennifer) of a number of graphic novels, including the Babymouse and Squish series from Random House Children’s Books and Sunny Side Up from Scholastic Graphix. He also co-wrote and illustrated the middle-grade novel Marvin and the Moths with Jonathan Follett. His latest collaboration with sister, Jennifer Holm is Swing it, Sunny (Graphix). Summer’s over and it's time for Sunny Lewin to enter the strange and unfriendly hallways of middle school. Not only is the whole middle school thing confusing . . . but life at home is confusing, too. Sunny misses her brother Dale, who's been sent to boarding school. But when Dale comes back, she STILL misses him, because he's changed. Luckily Sunny's got her best friend and a mysterious new neighbor on her side, because she is NOT going let all this confusion get her down. Instead, she's going to remain Sunny-side up! Other Occurrence Annual Venue Name: Wembly Wordsmith’s Storytorium (in Children’s Alley) Location: 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132 United States + Google Map
Details Date: Saturday, November 18, 2017 Time: 2:30 pm Event Category: Ages 8-14 Authors Kim Dwinell (Dwinell, Kim) Kim Dwinell is an illustrator/animator/graphic novelist who also teaches classes at California State University Long Beach. Dwinell likes stories more than the beach. Almost. Maybe it's a tie. She first had a career as a beach lifeguard, and then a career in animation (The Swan Princess, Cats Don't Dance, Hercules, Mulan and Tarzan) and now combines her two loves in her first graphic novel, Surfside Girls: The Secret of Danger Point (Top Shelf Productions). Things are getting weird in Surfside for Samantha. After swimming through a secret underwater cave, Sam starts to see things. Like ghosts. And pirates. And maybe something even scarier! Can she and her friend Jade get to the bottom of this mystery in time to save their town? Mariko Tamaki (Tamaki, Mariko) Mariko Tamaki is an artist and writer known for her graphic novel This One Summer, a Caldecott Honor Book and Printz Award winner, among other notable novels. She is the author of Lumberjanes: Unicorn Power! (Lumberjanes #1) (Amulet Books). Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin—Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley—love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen, and go on supernatural adventures. That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella’s, where the woods contain endless mysteries. Today is no exception. When challenge-loving April leads the girls on a hike up the TALLEST mountain they’ve ever seen, things don’t go quite as planned. For one, they didn’t expect to trespass into the lands of the ancient Cloud People, and did anyone happen to read those ominous signs some unknown person posted at the bottom of the mountain? Also, unicorns. Matthew Holm (Holm, Matthew) Matthew Holm is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of more than 35 books for children. He is the co-creator (with his sister, Jennifer) of a number of graphic novels, including the Babymouse and Squish series from Random House Children’s Books and Sunny Side Up from Scholastic Graphix. He also co-wrote and illustrated the middle-grade novel Marvin and the Moths with Jonathan Follett. His latest collaboration with sister, Jennifer Holm is Swing it, Sunny (Graphix). Summer’s over and it's time for Sunny Lewin to enter the strange and unfriendly hallways of middle school. Not only is the whole middle school thing confusing . . . but life at home is confusing, too. Sunny misses her brother Dale, who's been sent to boarding school. But when Dale comes back, she STILL misses him, because he's changed. Luckily Sunny's got her best friend and a mysterious new neighbor on her side, because she is NOT going let all this confusion get her down. Instead, she's going to remain Sunny-side up!
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