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Vashti Harrison

Authors at the Library

2025-04-05 11:00:00 2025-04-05 12:00:00 America/New_York Vashti Harrison Vashti Harrison, author of books including Caldecott Medal winner BIG, joins us for a family-friendly Author Talk. Main Library -

Saturday, April 05
11:00am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-04-05 11:00:00 2025-04-05 12:00:00 America/New_York Vashti Harrison Vashti Harrison, author of books including Caldecott Medal winner BIG, joins us for a family-friendly Author Talk. Main Library -

Vashti Harrison, author of books including Caldecott Medal winner BIG, joins us for a family-friendly Author Talk.

Authors at the Library with Vashti Harrison 

Saturday, April 5
10-11 a.m.

Main Library | 96 S. Grant Ave.
(Reading Room – Second Floor)

No registration necessary. 

Vashti Harrison is the New York Times bestselling creator of Big, which was awarded the 2024 Caldecott Medal, a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor, in addition to being a National Book Award finalist. Vashti is also the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Little Leaders, Little Dreamers, and Little Legends, and the illustrator of Lupita Nyong’o’s Sulwe (for which she received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor), Matthew A. Cherry’s Hair Love, Andrea Beaty's I Love You Like Yellow, and Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic’s Hello, Star, among others. A two-time recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children, Vashti lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Winner of the Caldecott Medal, BIG is the first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning creator Vashti Harrison traces a child’s journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. With spare text and exquisite illustrations, this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out and feel invisible at the same time.

FREE COPIES of Vashti's picture book, BIG, to the children in attendance, courtesy of Battelle. While supplies last. 

 

Columbus Metropolitan Library offers events and programs for customers of all ages. Battelle’s generous gift to the Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation helps make it possible for the library to host additional author talks and programs for kids and teens that encourage a lifelong love of reading. Our goal is to host diverse, nationally recognized authors at Main Library. These programs are free and open to all. 

AGE GROUP: | Families |

EVENT TYPE: | Families | Authors at the Library | Author Visit |

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