Here is something else to be thankful for: Big & Little Questions is on Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of the Year 2017 list!
Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂
Here is something else to be thankful for: Big & Little Questions is on Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of the Year 2017 list!
Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂
Wow! I’m so happy to share the news that Publishers Weekly has named Big & Little Questions (According to Wren Jo Byrd) to its Best Books 2017 list!Â
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I’m excited to be taking part in a brand new feature of the Chippewa Valley Book Festival this year! Look for me at the first ever Tables of Content Book Fair taking place on Sunday, October 22, Noon-4:00pm. I will be signing copies of Big & Little Questions (According to Wren Jo Byrd) at Volume One (The Local Store). Please stop by and say hi! 🙂
On March 25, 2017, family, friends & fans gathered at the Volume One Local Store in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to help me celebrate the release of my newest middle-grade novel, Big & Little Questions (According to Wren Jo Byrd). It was a morning filled with books, beads, sweet treats and one BIG surprise: My daughter and her boyfriend flew in all the way from Seattle, Washington! I had NO idea they were coming to the party. I was in total shock when my daughter walked up to me, held out a copy of Big & Little Questions, and asked, “Will you sign my book for me?” Oh-Em-Gee! So. Much. Fun!
Here are a few photos from my special day:
Thank you to everyone who helped me celebrate the release of my 14th book for kids! 🙂
For as long as I can remember, I’ve liked to make arts and crafts. Finger painting. Macramed bottles. Thumbprints transformed into faces and animals with an ink pad and a felt-tipped pen. Silly Putty used to lift the images of Dennis the Menace and Garfield and Snoopy from comic strips, then stretched and contorted in ways that would make Picasso smile. In high school, I learned how to do calligraphy, really quite well. During college, there were painted rocks and sand candles and friendship bracelets I made as a summer camp counselor.
Making things — be it bracelets or pencil holders or mittens — makes us uniquely human. No other creature on the planet is quite as crafty as we are.
For me, writing is a kind of art too. Each little word creates something bigger… a story, that has never been told in quite the same way before. It’s as unique as a sand castle. As uncommon as a tie-dyed T-shirts. As one-of-a-kind as a thumbprint.
Perhaps that’s partly why I so often include a craft when I do book events. Because working with our hands helps us discover who we are. And writing stories helps us share what we discover about ourselves along life’s way.
This month, I’m planning a book event to celebrate the release of my newest middle-grade novel, Big & Little Questions (According to Wren Jo Byrd). You’ll have a chance to hear me read a little from the book and ask me some questions about it. We will eat cake. And, yes, we will make a craft! Here are the details:
Book Launch Party!
Big & Little Questions (According to Wren Jo Byrd)
Saturday, March 25
10:00 – 11:30 A.M.
The Local Story & Volume One Gallery
205 N. Dewey Street, Eau Claire, WI
I hope to see you there!
~ Julie