It’s the first full week of October, so all over Alaska, writers, illustrators, agents, editors, publishers, and (happily) readers are celebrating this annual tribute to literacy in its many forms. Our organizing group is the Alaska Center for the Book. (Thank you!!)
My colleagues have been appearing all over this week. And on October 6, I visited a community on the Kenai Peninsula–Ninilchik–where I was glad to meet their enthusiastic K-5th-graders. It’s a small school with talented staff and faculty who are pouring themselves into this bunch of bright kids. My trip coincided with their “Grandparents’ Day,” so we loved seeing parents and grandparents in the audience, too.
Still ahead this Saturday, October 11, I’ll be joining twenty authors inside Anchorage’s Loussac Library’s Event Center for a mass book-signing. I’ll bring The Queen of Fairbanks, Alaska Homesteader’s Handbook, and a wide selection of my children’s books.
If you’re in town, please come. You’ll meet new, breakthrough authors as well as veterans who are still on the job. I’m betting one or more of your favorites will be there. The library is at 3600 Denali Street. In the meantime, you can learn more about APL services at anchoragelibrary.org. See you there!