A Child of Books

When:
Saturday, Feb 25, 2017 1:00p -
2:30p

Where:
Boston Athenæum
10 ½ Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108

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Admission:
$15

Categories:
< 21, Art, Kid Friendly, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/events/4435/children%E2%80%99s-event-child-books

"New York Times" best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers and fine artist Sam Winston will present on their collaboratively created picturebook, "A Child of Books." An artistic love letter to reading and the imagination, "A Child of Books" combines Jeffers’s expressive images and Winston’s immersive typographical landscapes, as a girl and boy adventure through the rich terrain of stories. A book signing will follow.


Recommended for booklovers of all ages.


Oliver Jeffers is the author-illustrator of many books for children, including "Once Upon an Alphabet," which won a "Boston Globe-Horn Book" Award, and "Lost and Found," which was a Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Medal winner. He is also the illustrator of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "The Day the Crayons Quit" and its follow-up, "The Day the Crayons Came Home," both written by Drew Daywalt. Oliver Jeffers lives in Brooklyn.


Sam Winston is a fine artist whose work has been featured in many special collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the Tate Galleries in London, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He works and lives in London.


Free for children under 10. Registration for participants ages 10 and up is recommended but not required. Children under 10 do not need to register. Registration begins February 10 at 9 am.


To register, go to: https://bbd.bostonathenaeum.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=300


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