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Derrick Barnes

Authors at the Library

Award-winning author Derrick Barnes presents his beloved picture books in this family-friendly author talk.

Authors at the Library with Derrick Barnes

Saturday, November 15 | 10:30 a.m. 
Hilliard Branch | 4500 Hickory Chase Way

9 a.m. | Library opens
10:30 a.m. | Book Giveaway and Author Talk 
11:30 a.m.|  Book signing and Meet & Greet 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Derrick Barnes is a National Book Award Finalist for his graphic novel Victory. Stand!-Raising My Fist For Justice, which also won the YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award, and a Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning picture book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut which received a Newbery Honor, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor, the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, and the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers. In 2020, he became the only author to win the Kirkus Prize twice for the New York Times bestseller, I Am Every Good Thing, which also won a Charlotte Huck Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor. Derrick is also the creator of the New York Times bestselling companion picture books, The King of Kindergarten and The Queen of Kindergarten. He is a native of Kansas City, MO, but currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his enchanting wife, Dr. Tinka Barnes, and their four sons, the Mighty Barnes Brothers.

EVENT DETAILS

The event is free to the public but due to limited seating, registration is requested. 

FREE BOOKS will be available courtesy of Battelle, while supplies last. One book per family. 

Additional books will be sold on site by Cover to Cover Children's Books.

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 programs that are free and open to all. 

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