Who: Maria Bea Alfano, Corey Ann Haydu, Katie Risor
What: Book launches with readings and signings
Where: Books of Wonder, 42 West Seventeenth St.
When: Saturday, November 8, free with RSVP, 3:00
Why: “GioGioGio! Ruffruffruff, arooo!” So begins Maria Bea Alfano’s Barker’s Doghouse 2: Leave It! (Pixel+Ink, November 25, $16.99), the follow-up to the first Barker’s Doghouse book, Fetch! Illustrated by Laura Catalán, the books detail the adventures of ten-year-old Gio Barker as he moves to a new town and finds friends in a group of talking canines.
Alfano will be at Books of Wonder on November 8, joined by Corey Ann Haydu, author of Zoomi and Zoe and the Tricky Turnaround and Zoomi and Zoe and the Sibling Situation (Quirk, $15.99), a series, illustrated by Anne Appert, about a monster and her new imaginary friend, and Katie Risor, the author-illustrator of Welcome to the Forest: The Harvest Party (Andrews McMeel, $11.99), about charming woodland creatures.
Each author will introduce and/or read from their books, then be available for a meet and greet to sign copies.
[Mark Rifkin is a Brooklyn-born, Manhattan-based writer and editor; you can follow him on Substack here.]