Story Time at Greenlight Saturday, March 6, 10:30 AM Selina Alko and Aileen LeijtenGreenlight Bookstore is proud to participate in a borough-wide celebration of Women's History Month through local artists and literature. Six Brooklyn author-illustrators will be participating in events at various bookstores, galleries, and restaurants - including Story Time at Greenlight!
Join us each Saturday morning in March when one or two authors read from their own work, often featuring New York themes and locales. Details about authors appearing this week at Greenlight are below. For more information about the authors and the series, visit the
blog of organizer Melanie Hope Greenberg. See you at Story Time!
Selina Alko is the author and illustrator of
I'm Your Peanut Butter Big Brother, and illustrator of
My Taxi Ride and
Greetings From the 50 States. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada, and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband Sean Qualls and their children Isaiah and Ginger. Selina's optimism permeates her work, and she hopes that her books will help children to be more open-minded; for example,
I'm Your Peanut Butter Big Brother is about a child in a biracial family who wonders what his sibling-on-the-way will look like.
Aileen Leijten is the author and illustrator of
Hugging Hour, and the illustrator of
Bella and Bean and other books. She was born in in Belgium and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, daughter and dog. She is an avid reader and crafter, and worked in Los Angeles for Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg before moving to Brooklyn.
Hugging Hour is about an overnight stay at Grandma's house.
Award-winning poet Tina Chang was recently named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn by Borough President Marty Markowitz. One of Chang’s initiatives as Laureate is the Adopt-A-Poet Project, in which published poets bring the craft and appreciation of poetry into the borough’s middle schools. Chang launches the project this evening with a reading by the students of Fort Greene’s own Ronald Edmonds Learning Center (MS 113), who have been working with her on their own poems this month. Join us to hear from Brooklyn’s budding poetic talents, hosted by our own poet laureate.
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