February 11, 2020

Local author, local bookshop.


Special Storytime!


Come to the Odyssey Bookshop on Sunday, February 16 at 2:00pm for a very special storytime with Megan Dowd Lambert, author of A Kid of Their Own.

About the Book

In this fresh and funny follow-up to the Ezra Jack Keats Honor Book A Crow of His Own, rooster Clyde is forced to adjust to new roommates on the farm when Fran the goat and her kid, Rowdy, take up residence. Can Clyde handle having a new kid in town?

Rooster Clyde has just settled in and found his voice when everyone demands that he take his hard-earned crow down a notch so as to not disturb newcomer Rowdy. That doesn't sit well with Clyde. Neither does the fact that motherly goose Roberta seems to have taken the new animals' side. The farm community learning to deal with a young member of the group is the main story in text and is paired with a wordless story in illustrations that shows Farmer Jay and Farmer Kevin getting ready for their adopted child to arrive on the farm.

About the Author

Amherst author and international superhero Megan Dowd Lambert is the author of A Crow of His OwnReal Sisters Pretend, and Reading Picture Books with Children. She is an instructor at the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons University, where she earned her master's degree. She writes about books and parenting for Horn Book Magazine, has served on a Caldecott Committee, and worked at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art for many years.

Jessica Lanan is the illustrator of Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock StoryThe Story I'll Tell, and Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth. She attended Scripps College and has a BA in fine art. She lives with her husband and a three-legged cat in Colorado. www.jessicalanan.com

RSVP

This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, please click here.

Get Your Copy

Books will be available to purchase at the event, but if you would like to reserve a copy ahead of time, you may do so below.
Event date: 
Sunday, February 16, 2020 - 2:00pm
Event address: 
Odyssey Bookshop
9 College Street
South Hadley, MA 01075