Holidays 2012 Events Schedule

Ho Ho Cho Happy Holidays!

December is around the corner and the seasonal festivities are lining up.  

I'm doing book events in New Jersey, Manhattan and Brooklyn for both DADDY CHRISTMAS & HANUKKAH MAMA and B is for BROOKLYN.  Please take note:

Sunday, December 2nd

WATCHUNG Booksellers

54 Fairfield Street

Montclair, NJ

2pm StoryTime

Thursday, December 6th

STRAND Bookstore

828 Broadway (between 12th & 13th streets)

Manhattan, NY

3:30 - 4:30pm StoryTime

Saturday, December 8th

Brooklyn FARMACY & Soda Fountain

513 Henry Street

Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

* buy a book and get a free egg cream!  if you missed my book release party in september (or if you had such a good time you want to come back for more!) this is a repeat signing event - especially for the holidays - in the cutest old school soda shoppe in town!

Sunday, December 9th

BROOKLYN MUSEUM 

exclusive book signings of both DADDY CHRISTMAS & HANUKKAH MAMA and B is for BROOKLYN.

12pm Gift Shop

Wednesday, December 12

GREENLIGHT Bookstore

686 Fulton Street

Brooklyn NY

4pm StoryTime

Saturday, December 15

SOUTH SLOPE HOLIDAY FAIR

PS10 School

11am - 5pm

selling all my books and prints with Sean Qualls (& his goods) all day!

Sunday, December 16

BABBO Books

242 Prospect Park West

Brooklyn, NY

11am Story Time

New Season, New Events.

Happy Fall!

I'm pleased to announce that Every-Day Dress-Up comes out on October 11! In this book, the heroine ditches her princess duds in favor of costumes inspired by real women.

Kirkus Reviews calls it, "a happy antidote to the princess plague". I'm so excited about this book that I both wrote and illustrated, my first since, 'I'm Your Peanut Butter Big Brother'.

Here's my Fall schedule:

Book Court Every-Day Dress-Up Book Release Party! Oct 15 @ 7 PM. 163 Court St., Brooklyn.

Wine, cheese, books & fun! For adults and kids.

MiniMax Toys & Books Story Time! Oct 11 @ 10 AM (Every-Day Dress-Up's birthday!). 152 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn.

Story time for kids & parents.

MiniMax Toys & Books Costume Making Workshop! Oct 28 @ 3:30 - 5:30 PM. 152 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn.

A reading of my book will be followed by creating original, alternative costumes for girls & boys 2-7 years old. Just in time for Halloween!

Community Bookstore Story Time! Oct 23 @ 11 am. 143 7th Ave., Brooklyn.

Story time for kids & parents.

Botanic Garden Ghouls & Gourds Festival! I'll be at the spooky book barn. Oct 29 @ 12 - 4 PM. 1000 Washington Ave., Brooklyn.
All afternoon signing & reading. Meet other great authors, too!

Books of Wonder Panel of Children's Book Makers. Nov 5 @ 12 - 2. 18 West 18th, NYC.

Brooklyn Museum Book Fair! Nov 19 @ 12 - 4 PM. 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.

All afternoon signing & reading. Meet other great authors, too!

Boulevard Books & Cafe Dress-Up Party! Dec 28 @ 11am. 7518 13th Ave., Brooklyn.

Book reading and alternative holiday dress-up. Fun family activity during school break!

And finally, my website has been recently updated with Every-Day Dress-Up available for pre-order. Hooray! The link to pre-order is on the homepage: www.selinaalko.com.

Hope to see you soon!

Ice Cream Flavors & Family Trees

I'm pleased to report that the Brooklyn Museum Book Fair was a smashing success. This was partly owing to the dynamic craft activities that Sean and I had going on at our booth. Droves of children came by to make self portrait ice cream cones and draw their own family trees. These simple activities coordinated with the themes of our recent books: Ice cream flavors for, I'm Your Peanut Butter Big Brother (Knopf) and family lineage for, Who Will I Be, Lord? (Random House). Check out these awesome kids making art!

3rd Annual Brooklyn Museum Children's Book Fair

This Saturday, November 21 from 12 - 4 p.m., I will be signing books at the Brooklyn Museum Children's Book Fair. Come by and say hello! This is a great chance to get some nifty signed books for the Holidays! There will be book readings and craft activities too! And while you're there, why not visit the Museum's new Egyptian exhibit? Many of my talented author and illustrator friends are participating, including: R. Gregory Christie, Zetta Elliot, Shana Corey, Melanie Hope Greenberg, Lauren Castillo, Paul Hoppe, Meghan McCarthy, Sean Qualls, Shadra Strickland, Peter Brown and David Ezra Stein.

Brooklyn Museum

Rubin Pavilion

200 Eastern Parkway

Saturday, November 21, 2009

12 - 4 p.m.