On the weekend of September 16th and 17th, NYRB will have booths at the Brooklyn Book Festival and the Brooklyn Book Festival Children's Day.
The Brooklyn Book Festival Children's Day will be held at MetroTech Commons on Saturday, September 16th, from 10-4. We will have a selection of our children's books available at discounted prices. Also, join us for events with Maira Kalman and Chris Raschka:
At 11am, an event with Maira Kalman, author of Max Makes a Million and Hey Willy, See the Pyramids, will be held at the Picture Book Stage at MetroTech Commons.
At 1pm, Chris Raschka will read from his book The Doorman's Repose and children will be invited to draw and decorate packages that they imagine could be delivered to the doorman's building. The event will be held at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, 6 Metro Tech Center, 4th floor.
At 3pm, Chris Rascka will join Katy Wu, Liniers, Gregg Schigiel, George O’Connor, Misa Saburi, Alix Delinois and Ruth Chan for "Illustrator Smackdown!," a dramatic and hilarious live action drawing competition.
The Brooklyn Book Festival will be held on Sunday, September 17th, from 10-6:30, at Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza, 209 Joralemon Street. Find us at booth numbers 409 and 410, where we will have discounted books and free issues of The New York Review of Books.