Kids Story Time at Chaucer’s Books

Sunday, December 8, 2024  at 3  p.m.

Chaucer’s Books hosts local children’s authors Mike Bender and Josh Shelton for a book reading and signing of their respective books The Bravest Booger and The 12 Days of Construction.

From the team behind The Most Serious Fart comes a hilarious and “nosewarming” story about digging deep to find the courage in all of us!

Meet Beatrice. She’s a very fearful booger, but when an allergy attack threatens to blow away her friends, she must become…The Bravest Booger!  The book also includes over 100 hidden noses from legendary Highlights Hidden Picture illustrator, Chuck Dillon.

In this spin on the classic Christmas carol for every kid who loves construction sites, each new day “my foreman brings to me” more and more construction vehicles With “six cranes a-lifting” to “five golden backhoes,” every playful page invites your little construction expert to count, read (or sing), and marvel at the growing number of tractors, trucks, heavy machinery… “and a flatbed with a Christmas tree ” The 12 Days of Construction book contains a special QR Code to “The 12 Days of Construction” SONG The author, a trained musician/songwriter, has released a companion song (available for streaming and download) for families to listen to as they read or to enjoy between readings.

Mike Bender is a #1 NY Times Bestselling author, award-winning children’s book author, founder of Awkward Family Photos, and screenwriter of the cult classic “Not Another Teen Movie.” Mike lives in Santa Barbara with his family and has written the Junior Library Guild selection, “The Book About Nothing,” and “The End Is Just The Beginning,” which is inspired by his own healing journey with Lyme disease. His upcoming “Bored Panda” children’s book is a collaboration with the popular boredpanda.com website and will be published by Random House. Chuck Dillon has created award-winning illustrations for such clients as Highlights for Children, PBS, Princeton University, The Philadelphia Zoo and is a three-time nominee of the National Cartoonist Society.