Publishers Weekly - 14.10.2019

(Joyce) #1

Children’s Highlights This year at the


Miami Book Fair, we have children’s programming featuring everyone from


National Book Award nominees to celebrity authors. Here are some events


you won’t want to miss!


SATURDAY, NOV. 23
Authors Karamo Brown and
Jason “Rachel” Brown
Saturday, 10 a.m.
Building 3, Chapman
Karamo Brown, famed culture
expert on the Netflix series Queer
Eye, presents his new picture
book, I Am Perfectly Designed,
which he cowrote with his son.


On the Come Up:
Women Who Slay
Saturday, 12 p.m.
MDC Live Arts Lab
Authors Angie Thomas and
Brittney Morris share a stage to
discuss Morris’s debut novel, Slay,
and Thomas’s On the Come Up.


Equality and Justice for All
Saturday, 1 p.m.
MDC Live Arts Lab


In Troublemaker for Justice, Walter
Naegle introduces civil rights
figure Bayard Rustin, while in
the YA edition of One Person, No
Vo t e, Carol Anderson explores the
history of voter suppression.

Jamaica Kincaid
Saturday, 2 p.m.
Wembly’s Author Tent
Author Jamaica Kincaid presents
her picture book, Party: A Mys-
tery, illustrated by Ricardo Cortés.

Andrea Beaty
Saturday, 4:30 p.m.
Wembly’s Author Tent
When her abuelo gets hurt,
Sofia asks City Hall to turn the
dangerous Mount Trashmore into
a park, only to be told she’s just a
kid. Down but not out, she sets
out to prove what one kid can do

in Sofia Valdez, Future Prez!

Remembering Your Roots: Not
Just Your Average Rom-Com
Saturday, 5 p.m.
MDC Live Arts Lab
Whether they’re caught between
cultures or crushes, family or
friends, these heartfelt, hilarious
characters will sweep you off your
feet. Featuring Nina Moreno
(Don’t Date Rosa Santos), Maika
Moulite and Maritza Moulite (Dear
Haiti, Love Alaine), and David Yoon
(Frankly in Love). Moderated by
Aurora Dominguez.

SUNDAY, NOV. 24
Fierce Fantasy
Sunday, 1 p.m.
MDC Live Arts Lab
Three indomitable fantasy au-
thors join forces in a conversation

you won’t want to miss. Featuring
Stephanie Garber with Finale, in
which all games must come to
an end; Tahereh Mafi with Defy
Me, in which Juliette must choose
to be a weapon or be a warrior;
and G. Willow Wilson with The
Bird King, in which Fatima risks
all to save Hassan, a mapmaker
who can bend the shape of reality.
Moderated by Culture Shock.

Trailblazers in History:
On Making a Difference
Sunday, 1 p.m.
Wembly’s Author Tent
Meet Jo Ann Allen Boyce, author
of This Promise of Change and one
of 12 African-American students
who broke the color barrier and
integrated Clinton High School
in Tennessee. Kyandreia Jones
provides a different view of
history with Choose Your Own
Adventure Spies: James Armistead
Lafayette, recounting the life of a
slave turned spy and war hero for
General George Washington.

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