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Denis Markell & Melissa Iwai
February 11, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeWhat if your favorite fantasy game characters showed up on your doorstep IRL? Sixth graders Ralph, Jojo, Noel, Persephone, and Cammi are hooked on fantasy tabletop role-playing games. When they somehow manage to summon their characters to Ralph’s house, things take a truly magical turn! Denis Markell’s The Game Masters of Garden Place (Delacorte) is a quirky Dungeons & Dragons-inspired adventure for middle readers. Illustrated by Melissa Iwai, Thirty Minutes Over Oregon (written by Marc Tyler Nobleman) (Clarion) is an important and moving true story of reconciliation after war, in which a Japanese pilot bombs the continental U.S. during WWII – the only enemy ever to do so – and comes back 20 years later to apologize. In addition to a reading of their respective books, Iwai and Markell will also discuss being a household of children’s book creators.