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School Visit with Jessie Sima
Event date:
Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 8:00am
Event address:
Private Off-Site Event
New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Jessie Sima will be visitng schools with Once Upon A Time Bookstore.
About the book: When a small robot named Z discovers a message in a bottle signed "Love, Beatrice," they decide to find out what "love" means. Unable to get an answer from the other robots, they leave to embark on an adventure that will lead them to Beatrice--and back home again, where love was hiding all along.
About the author: Jessie Sima is an author/illustrator living and working in New York City. She grew up in a small town in Southern New Jersey, unaware that she was a storyteller. Once she figured it out, she told her family and friends. They took it quite well. She is the author of Not Quite Narwhal, Harriet Gets Carried Away, and Love, Z. You can visit her at JessieSima.com.
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