DePaolo, dozens of others at Children’s Book Fair
The free Connecticut Children’s Book Fair will be Nov. 3 and Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day in the Rome Commons Ballroom at UConn’s South Campus Complex.
Authors and illustrators who will give talks include Caldecott and Newbery Honor winner Tomie dePaola, Parent’s Choice Gold winner Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Caldecott Medal winner Arthur Yorinks and New York Times Best Illustrated Book winner Stephen Savage, among others. Connecticut authors will include Jake Burt, Susan Hood Sandra Horning, Alan Katz, Janet Lawler, Barbara McClintock, Tochi Onyebuchi and Chandra Prasad.
Storybook characters will greet visitors, and there will be craft workshops, life-sized board games, storytelling, a kids cooking demonstration, worm races, live music and a café. bookfair.uconn.edu. includes a copy of the book, pre-personalized signed bookplate (provide the name when ordering), photo with Kinney, entry for one person and one companion ticket for a parent, guardian or child under age 6. Reservations and information on these and other R.J. Julia events: 203-245-3959 or rjjulia.com.
West Hartford student and author Julia Tannenbaum will launch her debut novel, “Changing Ways,” with a free talk on Nov. 3 at 3 p.m., at Noah Webster Library, 20 S. Main St., West Hartford.
The book is about a teenage girl struggling with eating issues and self-harming and what she learns after treatment in an institution. Tannenbaum will discuss her book, her experience of overcoming mental illness and how writing changed her life. Registration and information: 860-561-6996 or bit.ly/Changing_ Ways or kkarp@westhartfordCT.gov. to attend a fundraiser for the Middlesex County Historical Society on Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Inn at Middletown, 70 Main St. The event will benefit the Society’s headquarters and activities. Tickets are $35 and sponsorships are available.
Yale American History Professor David Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale, will speak about his book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.” Blight has made a career-long study of Douglass, the former slave who became a famous social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer. A dessert reception will follow the talk. 860-346-0746 and mchs@wesleyan.edu.
On Nov. 3 at 1 p.m., Mary Cheney Library, 586 Main St., Manchester, will launch a monthly Recipe Readers club. For each meeting, a theme, author or cookbook will be chosen and participants will choose and fully prepare a dish to share and discuss. The November books are “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It!: Simple, Scrumptious Recipes for Crazy Busy Lives” and “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl,” both by Ree Drummond. Registration required: mdaiuto@manchesterct.go or 860-645-0821.
East Hartford Public Library and Book Club Bookstore & More of South Windsor will host a panel discussion by four local mystery authors on Nov. 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the library, 840 Main St., East Hartford. The panelists are Penny Goetjen, R.C. Goodwin, Benjamin Thomas and Sarah Whelan. easthartfordct.gov/library or 860-290-4331.