Events
03 / 19
| ||
03 / 20
| ||
03 / 21
| ||
03 / 22
| ||
03 / 23
| ||
03 / 24
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Joy N. Hulme describes herself as “a grandma with the heart of a child.” She was born and
She says: “No life is long enough to run out of fresh surprises if we watch for them. I like to be accurate about Join us as we celebrate her newest book, Easter Babies: A Springtime Counting Book. | ||
03 / 25
| ||
03 / 26
| ||
03 / 27
| ||
03 / 28
| ||
03 / 29
| ||
03 / 30
| ||
03 / 31
| ||
04 / 1
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Author and Hicklebee's co-owner, Valerie Lewis presents the best of the best in new literature for grades k-8th. She has reviewed the lists from a wide variety of publishers - large and small - and selected the cream of the crop for Spring 2010. Here you'll find ideas for classroom & home. Make your reservation today for this popular event | ||
04 / 2
| ||
04 / 3
| ||
04 / 4
| ||
04 / 5
| ||
04 / 6
| ||
04 / 7
| ||
04 / 8
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Author and Hicklebee's co-owner, Valerie Lewis presents the best of the best in new literature for preschoolers. Gleaned for the lists of a wide variety of publishers, she delivers the absolute perfect books for spring 2010! You'll find lots of ideas for home and school. | ||
04 / 9
| ||
04 / 10
| ||
04 / 11
| ||
04 / 12
| ||
04 / 13
| ||
04 / 14
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Meanwhile is a wholly original story of invention, discovery, and saving the world, told through a system of tabs that take you forward, backward, upside down, and right side up again. Each read creates a new adventure!
“Crazy + Genius = Shiga” —Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics. | ||
04 / 15
| ||
04 / 16
| ||
04 / 17
| ||
04 / 18
| ||
04 / 19
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Publishers Weekly has called her books "vibrant . . . dazzling,” and School Library Journal said they “are as aesthetically impressive as they are informative". She's coming to us from France and will demonstrate her art and speak about her books. Join us! | ||
04 / 20
| ||
04 / 21
| ||
04 / 22
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
GARY PAULSEN
at the $5.00 admission Ticket price good toward the purchase of Woods Runner. (Willow Glen Middle School students can obtain their tickets from their Language Arts teachers). We are close to our seating limit. Please call (408) 292-8880 or email for current status.
Ages 10 & up Co-sponsored by Hicklebee's and the Willow Glen Foundation. Paulsen is a master storyteller who has written more than 175 books and some 200 articles and short stories for children and adults. He is one of the most important writers of young adult literature today and three of his novels—Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room—were Newbery Honor Books.It is Paulsen’s overwhelming belief in young people that drives him to write. His intense desire to tap deeply into the human spirit and to encourage readers to observe and care about the world around them has brought him both enormous popularity with young people and critical acclaim from the children’s book community.
| ||
04 / 23
| ||
04 / 24
| ||
04 / 25
| ||
04 / 26
| ||
04 / 27
| ||
04 / 28
| ||
04 / 29
| ||
04 / 30
| ||
05 / 1
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Come celebrate the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich
Join more than 50 children’s book authors and illustrators
Meet these authors at Hicklebee's! Jim LaMarche brings us his newest, Lost & Found. Jim LaMarche has been enchanting readers since 1992, when his illustrations for Laura Krauss Melmed's The Rainbabies earned him international acclaim. He won the Hicklebee's Book of the Year Award for Albert, written by Donna Jo Napoli. He is the father of three sons and lives with his wife in central California. Browse books by Jim LaMarche here...
Mac Barnett's picture book, Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem has kept us laughing since it landed on our shelves last fall. His newest book is a novel for ages 9 & up, The Brixton Brothers: The Case of Mistaken Identity.
Born to non-farmers in a California farming community, Browse books by Mac Barnett here...
Elizabeth Shreeve brings her newset book, Oliver at the Window. She grew up in Long Island, and after studying goelogy and art at Harvard, she learned to SCUBA dive and worked for a marine biologist. She decided to return to Harvard graduate school to study landscape architecture. A few years ago the idea for her book, The Adventures of Hector Fuller came zoming into her head. Browse books by Elizabeth Shreeve here... Meet Tina Stolberg and read her newest book, Little Shrew Caboose. Tina is a library specialist and the author of Moving Day Surprise. She lives in San Rafael, California. Browse books by Tina Stolberg here...
Meet S. Terrell French and celebrate the publication of her first book, Operation Redwood, winner of the 2010 National Green Earth Book Award for children's fiction! She is an environmental lawyer and first-time author. She lives in San Francisco ith her husband and three children, and has made many favorite trips to redwood forests. Find out more about Operation, Redwood here...
Meet Wendy Lichtman and check out her newest book, The Writing on the Wall.
Wendy Lichtman writes personal essays for the Washington Post, New Browse books by Wendy Lichtman here...
For more information, go to kidsotterread.wordpress.com.
| ||
05 / 2
| ||
05 / 3
| ||
05 / 4
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Nikki McClure's newest book, Mama, Is it Summer Yet? points out the small, beautiful ways to know a season is changing and leaves us both enjoying the spring and anticipating all the best a summer day has to offer. Nikki McClure of Olympia, Washington is a self-taught artist known for her painstakingly intricate and beautiful paper cuts. Armed with an X-acto knife, she cuts out her images from a single sheet of paper and creates a bold language that translates the complex poetry of motherhood, nature, and activism into a simple and endearing picture. She magnifies the importance of simple things, like the change of seasons, slowing down the world for a moment so we can actually taste it. We can't wait to meet her! Join us! | ||
05 / 5
| ||
05 / 6
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Celebrate the publication of her spectacular new novel, The Dreamer! Pam Muñoz Ryan was born and raised in California's San Joaquin Valley. She is the oldest of three sisters and the oldest of twenty-three cousins on her mother's side. She grew up with many of her aunts and uncles and grandparents nearby and considers herself truly American because her cultural background is an ethnic smorgasbord. She is Spanish, Mexican, Basque, Italian, and Oklahoman. During many long, hot valley summers, she spent most of her time riding her bike to the library. It became her favorite hang out because her family didn't have a swimming pool and the library was air-conditioned! That's how she got hooked on reading and books. After college, she knew that she wanted to work in a profession that had something to do with books, and she thought that would be teaching. She became a teacher, an administrator and then, at the encouragement of a friend who thought she could write, began her first book. That's when she finally knew what she really wanted to do. | ||
05 / 7
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Daniel Pinkwater, of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday proclaimed D. B. Johnson's first book, Henry Hikes to Fitchberg "A masterpiece..." Join us as Mr. Johnson introduces his newest picturebook, Palazzo Inverso, inspired by the works of M. C. Escher. D.B. Johnson has been a freelance illustrator for more than twenty years, during which time he has drawn upon the influence and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau to create the highly-acclaimed, bestselling Henry series. D.B. Johnson and his wife, Linda Michelin, live in New Hampshire. Find out more about Palazzo Inverso and other titles by D. B. Johnson here... | ||
05 / 8
| ||
05 / 9
| ||
05 / 10
| ||
05 / 11
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Meet Lisa A ghost will find his way home... Picture the Dead is An intriguing combination of historical romance, paranormal thriller and clever mystery is illustrated by Lisa Brown, a best-selling artist who created unique visuals that were modeled from authentic Civil War daguerreotypes and transformed into eerie mementos for Jennie's scrapbook, an object that will help her solve the mystery of her fiance's death. Ages 12 & up.
| ||
05 / 12
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:30 pm
The universe unfolds! Meet astronomer David Aguilar as he introduces us to Super Stars: The Biggest, Hottest, Brightest and Most Explosive Stars in the Milky Way.
David Aguilar, author of Planets, Stars, and Galaxies, is the How are stars born? How do they die? How do they affect out lives? Find out this and much more... | ||
05 / 13
Start: 3:00 pm
The rumors are true. The Emerald Khroniker has been stolen from the penthouse of Ternly Tower. We have reason to believe that the twelve jeweled numbers have been stashed across the country." That's where you come in - solve the mystery and the jewels are yours! REALLY! Mac Barnett & Eli Horowitz introduce The Clock Without a Face. Come and get the latest scoop. Born to non-farmers in a California farming community, Mac Barnett now lives near San Francisco. He's on the board of directors of 826LA, a nonprofit writing center for students in Los Angeles, an he founded the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a convenience store for time travelers.
Eli Horowitz is the managing editor and publisher of the Dave Eggers'-founded Best for readers born before 2001 but after 1903. | ||
05 / 14
| ||
05 / 15
| ||
05 / 16
| ||
05 / 17
| ||
05 / 18
| ||
05 / 19
| ||
05 / 20
| ||
05 / 21
| ||
05 / 22
| ||
05 / 23
| ||
05 / 24
| ||
05 / 25
| ||
05 / 26
| ||
05 / 27
Start: 6:52 pm
Imagine a Ladies' Night Out On The Town...our town of course! Tonight the Willow Glen Business Association presents an evening catering exclusively to women. Bring your friends and stroll in and out of stores getting pampered, enjoying cocktail parties, and more. Hicklebee's will be featuring Life's Too Short to Chop Onions: 99 Dishes to Make When You'd Rather Be Doing Something Else, by Kitty Greenwald. Join us for a taste or two from the book! See what other merchants are offering here... | ||
05 / 28
| ||
05 / 29
| ||
05 / 30
| ||
05 / 31
| ||
06 / 1
| ||
06 / 2
| ||
06 / 3
| ||
06 / 4
| ||
06 / 5
| ||
06 / 6
| ||
06 / 7
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
It's a Magical Summer at We're kicking off our summer reading program with magical flair!
The fun starts on Monday, June 7
Two Master Magicians from Willow Our summer program includes a magic starter kit, games, activities and a weekly puzzle piece or two. Complete the puzzle and earn a free book! Ages 5 & up~$10.00 For more information, click here... | ||
06 / 8
| ||
06 / 9
| ||
06 / 10
| ||
06 / 11
| ||
06 / 12
| ||
06 / 13
| ||
06 / 14
| ||
06 / 15
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Meet author/storyteller extraordinaire, Tim Myers as he introduces his newest book, Looking fo Luna. He'll be regaling us with fantastical stories as part of our Magical Summer at Hicklebee's! Ages 4 & up. Tim Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and university lecturer in education and English. He's placed numerous pieces in top children's magazines (Cricket, Appleseeds, Storyworks, New Moon), and has 10 children's books out or in press, which have won a number of awards and honors. Tim spent 14 years as a classroom teacher in the States and overseas (Norway, London, Tokyo), has 16 years' university experience, and has been a professional storyteller for over 25 years. Marshall Cavendish Publishers | ||
06 / 16
| ||
06 / 17
| ||
