Book Launch: Deborah Marcero for The Great Escape

Name: Book Launch: Deborah Marcero for The Great Escape
Start: 2026-02-28T11:30:00-06:00
End: 2026-02-28T12:30:00-06:00
Location: 318 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN, United States, Minnesota 55807

Schedule

Sat Feb 28 2026 at 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

318 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN, United States, Minnesota 55807 | Duluth, MN

Zenith Bookstore is excited to help launch Deborah Marcero’s new children’s book The Great Escape on Saturday, February 28th 11:30-12:30 PM. Deborah will read her book, share a little about the process of illustrating and how she created the magic realm, and do a fun activity. Please invite your family and friends to help celebrate this wonderful book!
The Great Escape by Deborah Marcero is a richly illustrated picture book that follows an older sister and her pack of wild, noisy, can’t-sit-still younger siblings on a grand and wondrous adventure. Evie believes in all things magic, but her always-pestering, always-following younger siblings make her life seem a little less magical sometimes. So, Evie makes her escape to the snowy world outside, hoping for a bit of peace and solitude, only to discover her siblings trailing behind her, once again.
Luckily, with the help of a wand and a few magic words, Evie turns a snowbank into a portal to an upside-down world full of stars, dolphins, and seahorses to ride. Even the reader is invited to rotate the book and follow the siblings along on their adventure! But when the siblings are faced with danger—and someone who needs their help—can they come together to save the day?
Deborah Marcero is the author-illustrator of fifteen books for young people including the #1 Indie Bestselling In a Jar and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year Out of a Jar. She is also the illustrator of an additional seven titles for children including The Boy Whose Head was Filled with Stars and If You Get Lost. Her author-illustrator titles have been translated into twenty languages, Out of a Jar and Haylee and Comet: Over the Moon were named as American Library Association Notable Books, and Haylee and Comet: A Tale of Cosmic Friendship received the Gold Star Selection Award from the Junior Library Guild. Her books have been on the Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Books of the Year, School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, BookPage Best Book of the Year, and Bank Street College Education Best Book of the Year lists. Deborah has a BFA from the University of Michigan in drawing, photography and printmaking and an MFA in poetry from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Deborah calls Duluth, Minnesota home.