Ever wonder who’s behind the cat library card? Join Worcester-born author and illustrator K-Fai Steele for a storytime followed by a writing and drawing workshop!
Learn drawing secrets and how to develop a fun and interesting character and story. Or just come for a really good storytime and some cat drawing.
K-Fai Steele is an author-illustrator who grew up in Charlton, MA in a house built in the 1700s with a printing press her father bought from a magician. She wrote and illustrated the picture books All Eyes on Ozzy! and A Normal Pig and the forthcoming middle grade graphic novel Best Buds. She was a James Marshall Fellow at the University of Connecticut, a Brown Handler Writer in Residence at the San Francisco Public Library, and the 2018 Ezra Jack Keats/Kerlan Memorial Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Born in Worcester, K-Fai now lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. www.k-faisteele.com
Thank you to our summer reading sponsors: UniBank, Mattina Proctor Foundation, Cornerstone Bank, Country Bank, Price Chopper Golub Fund, bank Hometown, Bob’s Discount Furniture, Walmart, the Worcester Public Library Foundation, and the Friends of the Worcester Public Library.
AGE GROUP: | Tween 8-12 | Teens 12-18 | Children 5-7 | Children 0-5 | All Ages | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Literature & Author Events | Community & Local Interest |
TAGS: | Writing | Storytime | Family | Early Literacy | Drawing | Author Visit |
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