Book Signing with Laura Schlitz
Please Join Us for a Book Signing
Tuesday, November 4
3:10-4:10 p.m.
Lower School Library
Longtime Park Lower School librarian Laura Amy Schlitz’s latest (and 10th) book, The Winter of the Dollhouse, is newly published and received a wonderful review from The New York Times! Laura will return to Park School on Tuesday, November 4 to meet with Lower and Middle Schoolers throughout the day, and will hold a book-signing event in the afternoon, open to all. Books available for purchase below.
A librarian in Park’s Lower School library for more than 30 years, Laura is a nationally recognized children’s author. In 2008, she won the Newbery Medal for Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, a series of monologues she wrote for fifth grade classes at Park. A novel, Splendors and Glooms, was a 2013 Newbery Honor winner. The Hired Girl, published in 2015, won a Gold Medal in the Sydney Taylor Book Award’s Teen category, a National Jewish Book Award for Young Adult Literature, and a Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Amber and Clay earned five starred reviews and was named to several lists of best books for children and middle grades, including Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Horn Book, and Booklist. It was given an Honor in the annual Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children, National Council of Teachers of English.
Books will be distributed to students at school.
All of Laura’s books will also be available for purchase from the library at the event.
Books Available for Pre-Order
The Winter of the Dollhouse
On a gloomy November night, eleven-year-old Tiphany Stokes saves an old lady from collapsing in the street. An antique doll named Gretel watches them, longing for Tiph to rescue her from life in a shop window. Though none of these three characters realizes it, their worlds are about to change: Gretel will no longer be a precious prisoner. The old lady—is she a witch?—will discover the secret hidden in her long-neglected dollhouse. And Tiph—whose parents rejoice that she is “never any trouble”—will become a thief, a dog walker, an actor, and best of all, a friend.
Suggested grade level: 4-7
A Drowned Maiden’s Hair
Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so when the charming Miss Hyacinth and her sister choose Maud to take home with them, the girl is as baffled as anyone. It seems the sisters need Maud to help stage elaborate séances for bereaved, wealthy patrons. As Maud is drawn deeper into the deception, playing her role as a “secret child,” she is torn between her need to please and her growing conscience — until a shocking betrayal makes clear just how heartless her so-called guardians are. Filled with tantalizing details of turn-of-the-century spiritualism and page-turning suspense, this lively historical novel features a winning heroine whom readers will not soon forget.
Suggested grade level: 5-9
Princess Cora and the Crocodile
Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She’s sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She’s sick, sick, sickof taking three baths a day. And her parents won’t let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn’t expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile—a crocodile who does not behave properly. With perfectly paced dry comedy, children’s book luminaries Laura Amy Schlitz and Brian Floca send Princess Cora on a delightful outdoor adventure — climbing trees! getting dirty! having fun! — while her alter ego wreaks utter havoc inside the castle, obliging one pair of royal helicopter parents to reconsider their ways.
Suggested grade level: Pre-K-3
