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