Storytime and Puppetry with Children's Author Dashka Slater

Start: 11/15/2009 12:00 pm

Join picture book writer Dashka Slater and her puppet Escargot, the shoe-obsessed snail, for a wiggly, dance-along storytime celebrating sea serpents, shoes, and firefighters. Dashka is the author of three acclaimed books for children -- The Sea Serpent and Me, Baby Shoes, and Firefighters in the Dark -- as well as two books for adults. The Sea Serpent and Me was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Cybil Award Finalist, and was named to the 2008 Librarians' Choices List of best books for children and young adults.

Dashka Slater is the recipient of a 2004 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her novel, The Wishing Box (Chronicle, 2000), was named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times, which called it “an impish novel, hopeful and full of humor.” She is the author of three widely-praised children's books, Baby Shoes, Firefighters in the Dark, and The Sea Serpent and Me. A fourth, Princess Amanita and the Nine Noses, will be released by Dial Books in 2011.

Slater is also an award-winning journalist who has written for such publications as More, Salon, Mother Jones, Sierra, The New York Times Magazine and The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine.

Her book about Hollywood’s portrayal of Alcatraz Island, Lights, Camera, Alcatraz! was released in October 2005. She is currently working on a collection of short stories. She lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and son.

The Sea Serpent and Me (Hardcover)

By Dashka Slater, Catia Chien

$17.00

ISBN-13: 9780618723942
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 5/2008

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When a tiny sea serpent tumbles from the bathtub faucet, a little girl finds an unexpected friend. As rainy day after rainy day passes, the two sing songs, take baths, and talk about the sea. But little girls live on land, and a growing sea serpent needs wave upon wave of water. Full color.

Firefighters in the Dark (Hardcover)

By Dashka Slater, Nicoletta Ceccoli

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780618554591
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 10/2006

At night, a girl hears the sirens from the fire station near her house.Even though it is dark outside, she knows where they are going: to a castle, to a garden, all the way to Pluto . . . Dashka Slater and Nicoletta Ceccoli have crafted a dreamy ode to firefighters everywhere and the big, brave, spectacular feats they accomplish every day, and every night--all the world over.

Baby Shoes (Hardcover)

By Dashka Slater, Hiroe Nakata

$7.95

ISBN-13: 9781599902739
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 4/2008

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Baby's got some brand new shoes that just . . . go, go, GO By the end of a morning walk with Mom, the once-white shoes have become a rainbow of hues. Perfect for new walkers who will love to take this toddler-friendly board book edition everywhere they go

Location:

Street:: The Reading Bug
Additional:: 785 Laurel St
City:: San Carlos
Province:: California
Postal Code:: 94070-3113
Country:: United States

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