The Stories We Tell
Finch (at 9 featured left; now at 12! featured right)
Our first reader for Kids Read to Kids!
Sundays in July at 10:15 AM
As I write, a 23-year-old, wild card qualifier, Arthur Fery, has made it to the quarterfinals of Wimbledon. He grew up around the corner and still lives there. The crowds are beginning to refer to him as King Arthur. Haha. Well, in the spirit of Arthur Fery, and in a bid to help us fill July with unlikely moments of uplift and joy in a world we all know needs it, we’re launching our Kids Read to Kids series, Sunday Mornings at 10:15 AM. The first one is this Sunday July 12th.
Finch, whom I first met three years ago when he slipped a note with a smiley face on it onto Blue Heron Books’ front counter that read: “Big jobs $10 and small jobs $5. Call my mom” is now going to be our first Kids Read to Kids reader.
Here’s his bio that he wrote himself:
Hi, my name is Finch. I have been working at Blue Heron Books for 3 years now.
I am twelve years old and I love reading, fishing, basketball, and gaming.
Currently, I'm knee-deep in Jurassic Park and it's great! I first started my passion for fishing when I was at Lake George and my grandfather started to teach me how to fish. I recently started to get interested in basketball. I have lived in High Falls my entire life and was overjoyed to see a bookstore in the town for the first time.
So, please, bring ya kids ages 3-7, or whatever, it’s o.k. bring all the kids if they’re around those ages and Finch is going to share a story (or a few) from our shelves. It’s free!
The Kids Read to Kids Dates for July are: 7/12, 7/19, and 7/26, 10:15 AM.
And for the adults ;) check out our July readings and discussions! if you can, include us in your plans!
Sunday, July 12, 4PM Loving Arrangements: Stories about Modern Living and Loving, ed. by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Dan Hood. Join Nan and many of the authors featured in this important book, exploring alternative ways of living and loving in our modern world.
Friday, July 24, 6PM Paradiso 17, 6PM! Hannah Lillith Asadi’s third novel and this month’s Blue Heron Books’ Book of the Month. Please join us for this special literary event, meet the author, and discuss the book, which was favorably reviewed by NYT Book Review, because it’s wonderful—“quiet and alert; it is a study in inheritance, in the afterlife of ideology, the way history seeps into every curated idyll” -not to be missed!
FYI, Arthur Fery, the unlikely hero next door, just became the second wild card qualifier to move on to the semifinals at Wimbledon in over a decade. Every day we write the book…because…we ARE the stories we tell.
Nox est perpetua una dormienda,
Jean