Illustrator R. Gregory Christie: FREEDOM IN CONGO SQUARE

Avid Bookshop is thrilled to welcome our friend and talented author and illustrator R. Gregory Christie back to the shop to celebrateFreedom in Congo Square on Thursday, February 18, 2016, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. There is no admission charge.

ABOUT THE BOOK: 

Written by Carole Boston Weatherford, Freedom in Congo Square is a poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history that captures a human's capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom's heart.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: 

R. Gregory Christie is a three-time recipient of a Coretta Scott King Award Honor for illustration (Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan; Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth; The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children), a two-time winner of the New York Times' 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year (in 2000 for Only Passing Through and in 2002 for Stars in the Darkness), a honor winner of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for illustration (Jazz Baby), and a recipient of the NAACP's Image Award. He operates Gas-Art Gifts, a children's bookstore with autographed copies in Decatur, Georgia. You can find more about Greg online at gas-art.com 

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

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