For Immediate Release
January 22, 2010
Contact: Lauren Martinson, 532-5953, 468-5953 (cell)

Great Big Book Bash guest Harry Bliss
guarantees squiggles…and giggles

Bring your kids to the library for a knee-slapping, laugh out loud funny event that will spark their creativity! Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine, but he is known to the younger set as the illustrator of A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech, and Diary of A Worm and Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin, among other bestselling children’s books.

During his presentation, Bliss will tell the kids about how he became an artist and will describe how he constructs the books from manuscript to finished art. Then he will unleash the visual imagination of attendees by turning their scribbles in to fun, creative pictures by teaching the kids an exercise they can do together long after the Great Big Book Bash is over. 

What:	Great Big Book Bash with Harry Bliss
When:	Saturday, February 20 at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Where:         Main Library Auditorium, 915 Monroe Street
Cost:	 	Tickets are $5 in advance, $8 the day of the event.
Info:		Call 532-5950 for more information!

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