Book Events
2025
June 10: Book Birthday for HOW WE FLY (postponed)
June 3: Author Visit John B Sliney Elementary School, Branford, CT
April 1: Book Birthday for WATCHING AND WAITING: WHAT HATCHES FROM NATURE’S NURSERIES
March 27: Author Visit Plain and Hill Elementary School, New Milford, CT
March 22: [words] Bookstore, HELLO DOG/HELLO HUMAN storytime, Maplewood, NJ
March 15: Book launch for HELLO DOG/HELLO HUMAN at Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
March 11: Book Birthday for HELLO DOG/HELLO HUMAN
March 11: Zoom Launch of HELLO DOG/HELLO HUMAN with illustrator Suzanne Kaufman through Belmont Books
January 27: Author Visit Norfeltd Elementary School, West Hartford, CT
2024
December 14: Newton Children’s Book Festival
November 13: Author Visit Harwinton Consolidated School, Harwinton, CT
November 1: Author Visit Tobin Montessori School, Cambridge, MA
October 21: CASL Conference Authorpalooza
October 9: Guilford Free Library, A Terribe Place For a Nest, CT
October 6: Brookline Booksmith Story Hour, A Terrible Place for a Nest, Brookline, MA
October 5: Eastern CT Children’s Book Fair
October 4: Author Visit at N Mianus School, Greenwich, CT
September 21: Teaching a course at Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis: The Story behind the Stories: Writing Engaging Picture Books for Children, New Haven, CT
September 15: Storytime at Watchung Bookseller, Montclair, NJ
September 10: Reading of A TERRIBLE PLACE FOR A NEST at Beacon Books & Cafe, Boston, MA
September 7: Author Visit with Elizabeth Shreeve at Book Ends, Winchester, MA
August 24: Author Signing at Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT
August 17: Book Launch for A TERRIBLE PLACE FOR A NEST at RJ Julia Bookseller, Madison, CT
August 3: Book Launch for A TERRIBLE PLACE FOR A NEST at Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
July 30: Book Birthday for A TERRIBLE PLACE FOR A NEST
June 4: Author Visit, FLOWER TALK, Guilford Lakes School, Guilford, CT
May 12: THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP Storytime at Taylor & Company Books, Brooklyn, MA
May 9: Parent/Child+ Virtual Conference, THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP
May 6: Author Visit, Fayerweather Street School, Cambridge, MA
April 27: Independent Bookstore Day, reading and event at Breakwater Books, Guilford, CT
April 19: Author Visit, Noah Wallace School, Farmington, MA
April 13: Keynote Speaker for MAAEYC Conference, Boston, MA
March 21: PBS/Family+Math/0-8 Early Math Project Story Time, featuring THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP
March 8: Author Visit with RJ Julia, SENSITVE and FOSSIL BY FOSSIL East Haddam, CT
March 1: Visiting Author for a children’s writing program, O’Neill Library, Cambridge, MA
February 5: Author Visit/reading of SENSITIVE at The Tobin School, Cambridge, MA
January 22: Guilford Lakes School, BONE BY BONE workshop for grades 1/2, Guilford, CT
January 6: Reading of SENSTIVE at O’Neill Library, Cambridge, MA
2023
December 16th: Author Visit, The People’s Bookstore, Takoma Park, MD
November 15, Author Visit, Guilford Lakes Elementary School, CT
October 14: Massachusetts Book Launch for Sensitive, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
October 12: Sakura Metal Nominees Presentation for A PEEK AT BEAKS, online, Japan
October 7: Connecticut Book Launch for Sensitive, RJ Julia Booksellers, Madison, CT
October 3: Book Birthday for SENSITIVE
August 5: Kent Memorial Library, Author Visit, Suffield, CT
July 27: Guilford Free Library Author Event, Poop for Breakfast, Guilford, CT
July 13: Author Event at the Farmer’s Market, Guilford, CT
July 17: Author Event at the Madison Beach Hotel with RJ Julia Booksellers, CT
June 21: Author Visit at Guilford Optical Shoppe, reading Eye by Eye, Guilford, CT
June 9: Graduation Speaker/Reading of Bone by Bone for The Tobin Montessori School, Cambridge MA
May 13: Massachusetts Book Launch of Poop for Breakfast, O’Neill Library, Cambridge, MA
May 8: Author Visit at Calvin Leete School, Guilford, CT
May 5: Author Visit Guilford Center for Children
May 2: Author Visit Guilford Center for Children
April 15: Connecticut Book Launch of Poop for Breakfast, RJ Julia Booksellers, Madison, CT
April 4: Book Birthday for Poop for Breakfast: Why Some Animals Eat It
March 16: Reading of Poop for Breakfast at The Tobin School, Cambridge, MA
2022
October 6: Guilford Free Library: Author Event: THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP!, Guilford, CT
July 13: Richmond Memorial Library Author Event: Bone by Bone: Comparing Animal Skeletons, Marlborough, CT
June 21: Lesley University MFA Alumni Panel, Cambridge, MA
June 11: nErDcampCT: Author Panel
May 24 : Author vistit at McCarthy-Towne School, Acton-Boxborough, MA
May 19-20: Author visit at Old Town Elementary in Old Town, ME
May 13: Author visit at Berry Elementary School, Bethel, CT
May 12: Author visit at Anna H Rockwell Elementary School, Bethel, CT
April 27: Author visit at The Baldwin School, Guilford, CT
April 12: Publication day for Los animales no se dormian!
April 8: Author Visit at colegio de cristo Rey, Seville, Spain
April 5: Author visit at Fayerweather Street School, Cambridge, MA
March 17: Author visit at Tobin Montessori School, Cambridge, MA
March 4: Author visit at The Franklin School, Franklyn, NJ
January 28: Virtual school visit at Belmont Day School with Belmont Books, Belmont, MA
2021
October 6: Author visit (online) O’Neill Reads! Cambrige Public Library
September 12: CT Book Launch for A PEEK AT BEAKS: TOOLS BIRDS USE, RJ Julia Booksellers, 10:30AM outside reading at the bookstore and 2:00PM live virtual event via zoom
September 7: Publication Date for A PEEK AT BEAKS: TOOLS BIRDS USE
August 6: Author Reading of THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP! at RJ Julia’s at Wesleyan, 5:30PM
June 12: CT Children’s Authors Meet and Greet with RJ Julia Booksellers/Lyman’s Orchard
June 5, 12, 19: Faculty for SCBWI Northern Ohio Picture Book Retreat
May 13: Silver Unicorn: Reading (virtual) THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP! 7 PM
April 7: Author Visit at Fayerweather Street School
Apri 6: Book Launch of GERMS UP CLOSE at RJ Julia Booksellers (virtual) 5:30 PM
January 26: Brookline Booksmith: Reading (virtual) THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP! 4 PM
2020
November 21: Star Second to the Right Books: Reading (virtual) THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP! 4 PM EST
November 14: Belmont Books Launch Event (VIRTUAL) for THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP! 11 AM (posted on Instagram post talk)
November 7: Storytime with Nili, The Storybook Mom: Guest Author for THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP noon
October 17: RJ Julia Bookseller Lauch Event for THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP! 10:30 AM
October 13: THE ANIMALS WOULD NOT SLEEP! publication date
October 15: School Library Journal (virtual) Storytelling Math Author Chat 10AM
September 2: RJ Julia Bookseller Lauch Event—VIRTUAL—for EYE BY EYE: 6PM
September 1: EYE BY EYE: COMPARING HOW ANIMALS SEE publication date
July 31: Fly, Buzz and Hop Festival, Cambridge, MA
June 13: nErDcampCT Virtual Event
May 27: Virtual visit with Bank Street School, New York NY
May 19: Greenwood School, Wakefield, MA
May 14: Cook Prize Award ceremony (for Flower Talk) and school visit @ the Bank Street School, New York, NY
April 30: Greater Boston Jewish Coalition for Literacy, Boston, MA
April 23: Solomon Schechter School, Netwon, MA
April 3-4: NSTA, Boston, MA
March 18: Fayerweather Street School, Cambridge, MA
February 5: World Read Aloud Day: SKYPE visits with kids in Ohio, Hawaii, Michigan, Massachusetts and Indiana
2019
October 21: Author Palooza CASL CECA Conference, Hartford, CT
September 29: Community Growing Center: Reading Flower Talk at the Harvest Festival, Somerville, MA
August 3: RJ Julia Booksellers, Double Dinosaur reading with author Toni Buzzeo, Madison, CT
July 13: Art Beat, Somerville, MA
June 23: Lesley University MFA Program, The Picture Book Project, Cambridge, MA
June 15: The Silver Unicorn Bookstore, Acton, MA
May 17: The Country School, Madison, CT
May 16: Cook Prize Award Ceremony and School Visit, Bank Street School, New York, NY
May 11: Aesop Fable Book Store, Holliston, MA
May 3: Wolcott Elementary and Smith STEM School, Hartford, CT
April 27: Harvard COOP, Cambridge, MA
April 24: Haggerty School, Cambridge, MA
April 20: R.J Julia Booksellers @ Meig’s Point Nature Center, Madison, CT
March 22: STEM panel for Kidlit Conference, Providence, RI
March 15: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore, Middletown, CT
March 13: STEM family program, O'Neil Library, Cambridge, MA
March 9: Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
March 7: Fayerweather Street School, Cambridge MA