THANK YOU UCONN!

I wanted to give a special thanks to Suzy Staubach, Terri Goldich, 

and the rest of the UCONN Book Fair Staff,
for putting together a great weekend! 

The 19th Annual Connecticut Children's Book Fair 

was a well-attended, well-organized, fun-filled event. 

-If you're an author/illustrator I would recommend participating, 

if you're a book lover I would recommend trying to catch next year's fair!

ShelfAWARENESS noted that the Book Fair had several thousand attendees.

And we made Image of the Day!
I am pictured here enjoying dinner (at Table #9 ; ) with author/illustrator
Susan Kuklin; author Leslie Conner; and State Librarian Linda Williams.

I had a lovely time ladies, Thank You!

Connecticut Children's Book Fair!

Book lovers, this weekend come to the 

University of Connecticut 
Children's Book Fair!

As always, they have an impressive list of authors and illustrators 

who will be presenting and signing books all weekend from 10 am - 5 pm. 

I am lucky to be a part of the festivities this year, and you can catch my
presentation of my new book SUNDAY LOVE 
this Sunday the 14th, 10:45 am. 

Afterward I will be signing books from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, 
and again from 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm.

For a complete list of presenters, dates, times, and directions 

please visit UCONN's event website: http://bookfair.uconn.edu/

This Saturday at BARRINGTON BOOKS!

3rd Annual Children's Book 
Author and Illustrator Event!

THIS SATURDAY 
October 30th 10am-4pm

Come see me and many of your favorite local authors and illustrators at...

184 Country Road

Barrington, RI 02806

There will be a Spoooky Story Hour, Halloween Crafts and Musical Performances!!! What more could you want?!

P.S. Watch our spot on the Rhode Show, (with the wonders of technology, I was able to embed it in this blog, up and to your right!)

[Local] Television, Here I Come!

In pre-promotion of our Halloween Event 
(this Saturday at BARRINGTON BOOKS) 

Myself and other local authors & illustrators will be featured on 

the RHODE SHOW Tomorrow, 
Wednesday Oct. 27th. 

The show airs at 8am and again at 1pm 

on FOX Providence (WNAC Ch. 11) 

So program those DVR's  ; )

Reminder: LIGHTS ON AFTERSCHOOL EVENT Tonight!

Tonight, from 6 - 8:30 pm, come join me 
and the Traveling Theater 

at the South Side Boys and Girls Club, 
located at 1 Louisa Street in Providence.

Click here for Directions

Help us celebrate Afterschool Programming! 

It will be a night filled with youth performances, entertainment and music! 

There will also be a scavenger hunt, and of course story time with me! 

There will be refreshments, door prizes, and the Admission is FREE!

Hope to see you all there!

Thank You Sheehan School!

A BIG Thank You to Mrs Petrucci and Mrs Lynch's Kindergarden Class!

You were all so well behaved during story time, and your Crows looked great!

I was at the William E. Sheehan School in Westwood, MA today...
If you'd like me to visit your school next, please email me at: alisonpaul_art@hotmail.com

Come to MACY's! -for Storytime (and Shopping ; )

This Saturday, October 16th, come to Macy's in the Providence Place Mall (third floor mall entrance) for their SHOP FOR A CAUSE EVENT!

The non-profit featured at this event is the TRAVELING THEATER ! I have worked with the TRAVELING THEATER a lot over the years, and they do great work for the community bringing theater and arts to after-school programs in urban areas, (for more about them, please check out their website<www.travelingtheatre.org>). 

I am happy to be joining them again for this event, and I will be reading THE CROW (A Not So Scary Story) while they expertly preform it, from Noon to 2PM.  Before my reading, local author Julie Fox will also be accompanied for her reading of her book UGLY AS A TOAD from 10AM - 12PM.

Please help me support the TRAVELING THEATER during SHOP FOR A CAUSE by coming to see us this Saturday. When you make a $5.00 donation you will receive a coupon for 25% off your entire purchase that day!!! Its a win...win!

Octoberfest!

Can you believe it is already the first week of October?!

I hope everyone enjoyed their Septembers; 
full of first days of school, and first signs of Fall!

I wanted to thank you all for coming to see my two performances in Burnside Park last August! As you can see we all had a great time : )

Thanks again to fabulous Jen Smith 

with Kennedy Plaza, and Anisa Raoof 

with [the great blog] KidoInfo, 

for helping make it all happen! 

And a special 
"Thank You" to 

BOOKS on the SQUARE 

for braving the persistent 

pigeons in the name of 

independent book sellers!

October usually means I will be
quite busy with events for my
spookier story THE CROW

Please check back often to stay
updated with where I am this month!

Come See Me Again

Come See Me Again 

THIS Tuesday Morning 

in Burnside Park!

I had a great time earlier this month reading some of my favorite books to a rambunctious group of boys and girls! I would LOVE to see you all again! 

(If you missed it, the list of books I read is on KidoInfo.com/ri ) 

This week I will be performing my own book  THE CROW (A Not So Scary Story) , and reading my new book SUNDAY LOVE!

You will find the fun at Burnside Park, (the one with the beautiful fountain right next to Kennedy Plaza). This Tuesday morning, August 31st from 10 am - 11am 

Parents, be sure to bring your cameras and capture your child's first (and last : ) mug shot!

See you in the slammer,

Alison 

The CROW in Cranston!

I have the honor of working with the talented Traveling Theatre again!
(You might have seen us last October, at Roger William's Park SPOOKY ZOO!)

This Tuesday, August 24th at 6PM, we will be at the BORDERS Bookstore in the Garden City Center, 190 Hillside Rd, Cranston.  Traveling Theatre will be performing my book THE CROW (A Not So Scary Story) , as part of their "Books Alive!" program, then the actors will play theater games with the kids after the show!

Copies of The CROW will of course be for sale, and I will be there to sign books!

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Story time Tuesday mornings in Burnside Park!

Kennedy Plaza is organizing some great events this Summer in Burnside Park, (the one with the beautiful fountain right next to the bus station). For the kiddies, every Tuesday morning from 10 AM - 11AM a different local author and/or illustrator will be reading books!

           
I will be reading some of my favorite books this Tuesday August 3rd with Peter Mandel, who will be opening the hour with a reading from his newest book.
           
Then on Tuesday August 31st I will be reading my book THE CROW (A Not So Scary Story), and my new book SUNDAY LOVE! 
           
For more information on this event, and to see the list of other performers go to KidoInfo.com/ri


Let's hope for some more of this beautiful weather, and I look forward to seeing you there!