Award-winning ambassador for youth literature to speak
AT ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY: Gene
Luen Yang, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Superman & Avatar will speak at 3 today. Yang is the Children’s Book Council’s and Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. He began making comics and graphic novels over 15 years ago. In 2006, his book “American Born Chinese” was published by First Second Books. It became the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association’s Printz Award.
Albuquerque Academy is located at 6400 Wyoming Blvd. NE. Call Bookworks at 344-8139.
AT BOOKWORKS: Susan Weber of Susan’s Christmas Shop will sign “Susan’s Christmas Shop” at 3 p.m. today.
Susan has also written “Christmas in Santa Fe” and two books about nativities. The new book tells how she got started making Christmas ornaments in 1969 and why she created Susan’s Christmas Shop in 1978.
Poets Jenn Givhan and Barbara Duffey read from their new works at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4.
Givhan’s “Landscape with Headless Mama” explores the experiences of becoming and being a mother through the lens of dark fairy tales. In “Simple Machines,” Duffey explores the overlapping realms of biology, mechanical genius and creativity.
Scott Brown will sign “Active Peace” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5.
In “Active Peace,” he identifies the belief in separateness as the root cause of violence and skillfully weaves together the essentials needed to move beyond separateness into the lived experience of deep interrelatedness.
Jose Orduña will read from “The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration & Displacement” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6.
Orduña chronicles the process of becoming a North American citizen in a post-9/11 United States.
Melissa Savage and Enrique La Madrid will talk about “Rio” at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8.
Weaving together landscape and memory, this book presents historical photographs of the Rio Grande of the American Southwest.
Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW. Call 344-8139.