Author & artist Andrea Skyberg presents her new book Squircle recommended for children ages 4 and up; 3:45 4:30 p.m.; Friday, February 8th in the Children's Story Room of the Wauwatosa Library. Award-winning author & artist Andrea Skyberg reads her new book, Squircle. She will also bring with one of the appliqué murals, which served as the illustrations in the book. The program is interactive and includes songs, dance, and yoga. Copies of Squircle will be available for sale and Andrea will be signing books after the event. Date: February 8, 2013 Days of Week: Friday Target Audience: Children Time: 3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Phone: (414) 471-8486 Location: Wauwatosa Public Library Price: Free Author Visit with Lisa McMann Monday, February 11, at 6:30-7:30 p.m. Lisa McMann is the author of the Wake trilogy (Wake, Fade and Gone), along with other YA titles, Dead To You and Cryer's Cross. Her latest YA offering, Crash, came out in January. She is also the author of the popular Unwanteds series for children. At this visit, she will be promoting her newest effort, writing the third installment in the Infinity Ring series. Check out some of her books before she arrives, plan to get some signed, and come join us in hearing this big-name author speak about her work and answer questions! Refreshments and a drawing for an autographed book are included. Shorewood Library 3920 North Murray Avenue Shorewood, Wisconsin (414) 847-2670 WISCONSIN POET LAUREATE READING & PRESS Tuesday, February 12, 7–9:00 pm at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Library, Eau Claire Max Garland of Eau Claire, the Wisconsin Poet Laureate, is off to a great start with a series of high-profile interviews and burgeoning list of appearances for winter and spring of 2013, including a reading at the Eau Claire public library this month. Max is “interested in promoting the connection between poetry and place, and urging young as well as young-at-heart writers to write of the places they know and explore their relationships with those places in poetry.” Learn more about Max on our Wisconsin Poet Laureate web pageor read about him in the new winter issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas,available by subscription here. Children's Author and Last Year's CWW Children's Literature Award Winner Janet Halfmann Reports My Little Skink's Tail is the featured FREE e-book all during February on Sylvan Dell Publishing's website. The free e-book is a prize for readers who voted Little Skink's Tail the Sylvan Dell book most likely to become a classic! Link is: http://www.sylvandellpublishing.com/ Also, Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story is the featured book for Black History Month at Lee & Low Books website: http://www.leeandlow.com/ (Janet's nature- and science-based picture books are frequently spotted at aquariums and nature-center gift shops around the country.)