Join Bel Canto Books and Kudo Lab for an event on representation and building confidence through children’s literature, featuring Weshoyot Alvitre and Brook Thompson. Please RSVP below.

EVENT SCHEDULE

3:45pm – Event check-in begins

4:00pm – Welcome & event start

4:15-5:00pm – Author reading, conversation, and Q&A

5:00pm-5:30pm – Book signing & shopping time

5:30pm – Event ends

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Brook M. Thompson is a part of the Yurok and Karuk Tribes. She is a neurodivergent and Two-Spirit author with dyslexia. She has a BS in civil engineering from Portland State University and an MS in environmental engineering from Stanford University, and she will soon have a PhD in environmental studies from University of California, Santa Cruz, where she studies water, politics, restoration, and salmon. You can find out more about her at brookmthompson.com.

Weshoyot Alvitre is a Tongva and Scottish comicbook artist and illustrator. She is the illustrator of the picture book At the Mountain’s Base (written by Traci Sorell), which received the 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Award, and of Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories (written by Dan SaSuWeh Jones), which was named a 2021 Kirkus Reviews Best Middle-Grade Anthology. She resides in Southern California with her husband and two children. Visit her online at weshoyot.com.

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