the washington post
wednesday, august
28
,
2019
EZ10
illustrator of two Caldecott Honor
books, “Sam and Dave Dig a Hole”
and “Extra Yarn,” written by Mac
Barnett. His new book with Barnett
is “Circle” (Candlewick). Signing
2:30-3:30.
1:35-2: Fred Bowen’s many books
include “Touchdown Trouble,”
“Dugout Rivals,” “Outside Shot,”
“Soccer Team Upset” and his
newest, “Speed Demon”
(Peachtree). He writes the sports
opinion column for The Washington
Post’s KidsPost. Signing 2:30-3:30.
2:10-2:35: Shannon Hale is a
best-selling author of many books
for young adults and children,
including the Ever After High series
and “Princess Academy,” a
Newbery Honor book. Hale’s new
graphic novel (illustrated by
LeUyen Pham) is “Best Friends”
(First Second). LeUyen Pham is
the best-selling illustrator of the
Princess in Black series. Pham
wrote and illustrated “Big Sister,
Little Sister” and “The Bear Who
Wasn’t There.” She is the illustrator
of many other picture books,
including “The Boy Who Loved
Math: The Improbable Life of Paul
Erdos.” Signing 3:30-4:30.
2:45-3:10: Jennifer Swanson is
the author of more than 35
nonfiction books, with an
occasional fiction book, especially
for children and young readers,
focusing on science and
technology. Swanson has just
released “Save the Crash-test
Dummies” (Peachtree). Signing
4:30-5:30.
3:20-3:45: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
is the Alphonse Fletcher University
professor and director of the
Hutchins Center for African and
African American Research at
Harvard University. He is an award-
winning filmmaker, literary scholar
and critic. Gates has written or co-
written 22 books and created 18
documentary films, including
“Finding Your Roots.” Gates’s new
book for young people (with Tonya
Bolden) is “Dark Sky Rising”
(Scholastic). His new book for
adults is “Stony the Road”
(Penguin). Signing 4:30-5:30.
3:55-4:20: Pablo Cartaya is an
author, speaker, actor and
educator. In 2018, he received a
Pura Belpré Honor Book Award for
his middle-grade novel “The Epic
Fail of Arturo Zamora.” His most
recent novel is “Each Tiny Spark.”
Signing 5:30-6:30.
4:30-5:10: Matthew Gray Gubler
is an Emmy Award-winning actor as
well as a filmmaker, director,
painter, writer and magician.
Gubler is one of the stars of the
long-running TV show “Criminal
Minds.” His new book is “Rumple
Buttercup: A Story of Bananas,
Belonging, and Being Yourself”
(Random House).
bestsellers “Goodnight, Goodnight,
Construction Site” and “Steam
Train, Dream Train.” Her new book
is “Three Cheers for Kid McGear!”
(Chronicle). Signing 12:30-1:30.
11:50-12:15: Cece Bell is the
author-illustrator of many books for
young readers, including the
Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book
“Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover”
and the Newbery Honor Book “El
Deafo.” Bell’s new book is “Chick
and Brain: Smell My Foot!”
(Candlewick). Signing 1:30-2:30.
12:25-12:50: Sophie Blackall is
the winner of the 2019 Caldecott
Medal for “Hello Lighthouse”
(Little, Brown). She is the artist and
illustrator of more than 30 books,
including “Big Red Lollipop” and
“The Baby Tree.” She won a
Caldecott Medal in 2016 for
“Finding Winnie: The True Story of
the World’s Most Famous Bear.”
Signing 1:30-2:30.
1-1:25: Jon Klassen is an author
and illustrator of children’s books,
as well as an animator. He is the
author-illustrator of “I Want My Hat
Back,” which was followed by “This
Is Not My Hat,” winner of the
Caldecott Medal and the Kate
Greenaway Medal, the first book to
win both awards. He is also the
9:30-9:55: Jon Scieszka, a
children’s writer and reading
advocate, was the first National
Ambassador for Young People’s
Literature (2008-2009). Among his
many books are “The Stinky
Cheese Man and Other Fairly
Stupid Tales” and “The True Story
of the 3 Little Pigs!” His new book
(with illustrator Steven Weinberg) is
“AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant
Planet” (Chronicle). Writer and
illustrator Steven Weinberg has
written and illustrated “Fred & the
Lumberjack” and “Rex Finds an
Egg! Egg! Egg!” He is also the
illustrator of “To Timbuktu: Nine
Countries, Two People, One True
Story,” written with his wife, Casey
Scieszka (daughter of Jon
Scieszka). Signing 10:30-11:30.
10:05-10:30: Brian Floca is an
author and illustrator. His
“Locomotive” won the 2014
Caldecott Medal. He has written and
illustrated many other award-
winning titles, including “Lightship”
and “Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo
11” (Atheneum/Richard Jackson),
which he recently expanded for the
50th anniversary of the moon
landing. Signing 11:30-12:30.
11:15-11:40: Sherri Duskey
Rinker is the author of the
10-10:45: Evolutionary biologist
David Sloan Wilson is SUNY
distinguished professor of
biological sciences and
anthropology at Binghamton
University and director of EvoS, the
Evolutionary Studies Program.
Wilson’s books include “Darwin’s
Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and
the Nature of Society” and “Does
Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes and
the Welfare of Others.” His new
book is “This View of Life:
Completing the Darwinian
Revolution” (Pantheon). Signing
11:30-12:30.
11-11:45: Jim Ottaviani began
writing comic books and graphic
novels about the history of science
and scientists more than 20 years
ago. His books include “The
Imitation Game: Alan Turing
Decoded” and “Primates.”
Ottaviani’s newest graphic novel is
“Hawking” (First Second). Signing
12:30-1:30.
12-12:50: Conversation: Animal
Emotions & Human-Animal
Relations. Alexandra Horowitz is
the author of “Being a Dog:
Following the Dog into a World of
Smell” and “Inside of a Dog: What
Dogs See, Smell, and Know.” She
is an adjunct associate professor
and head of the Dog Cognition Lab
at Barnard College, Columbia
University. Her new book is “Our
Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a
Singular Bond” (Scribner). Biologist
and primatologist Frans de Waal
has been named one of Time
magazine’s 100 Most Influential
People. The author of “Are We
Smart Enough to Know How Smart
Animals Are?,” among many works,
he is the Charles Howard Candler
professor in Emory University’s
psychology department. His most
recent book is “Mama’s Last Hug:
Animal Emotions and What They
Tell Us About Ourselves” (Norton).
Signing 1:30-2:30.
1-1:45: Thomas W. Malone, an
organizational theorist, is the
Patrick J. McGovern professor of
management at the MIT Sloan
School of Management and the
founding director of the MIT Center
for Collective Intelligence. His
newest book is “Superminds: The
Surprising Power of People and
Computers Thinking Together”
(Little, Brown). Signing 2:30-3:30.
2-2:45: Peter Brannen is an
award-winning science journalist
whose work has appeared in The
Washington Post and the New York
Times. His most recent book is
“The Ends of the World: Volcanic
Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and
Our Quest to Understand Earth’s
Past Mass Extinctions” (Ecco)..
Signing 3:30-4:30.
4-4:45: Daniel Stone is a staff
writer for National Geographic and
a former White House
correspondent for Newsweek and
the Daily Beast. His new book is
“The Food Explorer: The True
Adventures of the Globe-Trotting
Botanist Who Transformed What
America Eats” (Dutton). Signing
5:30-6:30.
5-5:45: Lisa Margonelli spent
nine years chasing scientists from
Berkeley to Namibia for “Underbug:
An Obsessive Tale of Termites and
Technology” (Scientific American/
Farrar Straus Giroux). Her previous
book, “Oil on the Brain:
Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to
Your Tank,” won a Northern
California Book Award. Signing
6:30-7:30.
6-6:45: Science, nature and travel
writer David Quammen’s many
books include “The Song of the
Dodo” and “Spillover: Animal
Infections and the Next Human
Pandemic,” a finalist for a National
Book Critics Circle Award. “The
Tangled Tree: A Radical New History
of Life” (Simon & Schuster) is his
latest book. Signing 4:30-5:30.
7-7:45: Douglas Rushkoff is an
author and documentarian who
studies human autonomy in a digital
age. His 20 books include the
recently published “Team Human”
(Norton), based on his popular
podcast. Signing 5:30-6:30.
CHILDREN’S GREEN STAGE
SONYA SONES10:40-11:05: Linda Sue Park’s first children’s book was
“Seesaw Girl.” She has published many other books since,
including the Newbery Medal-winning “A Single Shard.” Her
most recent book is “Nya’s Long Walk: A Step at a Time”
(Clarion), with illustrations by Brian Pinkney. Signing 12:30-1:30.
SCIENCE
3-3:45: Beth Macy is
the author of three
best-selling books,
including her newest,
“Dopesick: Dealers,
Doctors, and the Drug
Company that Addicted
America” (Little,
Brown). “Dopesick”
was shortlisted for the
2019 Andrew Carnegie
Medal for Excellence in
Nonfiction. Signing
4:30-5:30.
JOSH MELTZER