Book Launch: Margi Preus for Snowshoe Kate

Name: Book Launch: Margi Preus for Snowshoe Kate
Start: 2025-11-01T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-01T12:00:00-05:00
Location: 318 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN, United States, Minnesota 55807

Schedule

Sat Nov 01 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

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

Zenith Bookstore is excited to welcome Duluth children’s author Margi Preus for the book launch of Snowshoe Kate and the Hospital Built with Pennies. We will celebrate on Saturday, November 1st 11-12 pm. Margi will read her book, have a “penny” craft, and we’ll have some treats for the party! Please join us and invite all your friends. This will make a wonderful gift for the holidays.
Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb (or "Dr. Kate," as she was known to her patients) was a doctor in rural northern Wisconsin during the early 1900s, a time when very few women practiced medicine. Because the nearest hospital was over two hours away and the snowy roads were often impassable, Dr. Kate sometimes used snowshoes to reach her patients, which led to her nickname, the "Angel on Snowshoes." She also traveled by snowmobile and even the snowplow!
In her years as a doctor, she delivered an astonishing 4,000 babies, and those same children later played a key role in the "Million Penny Parade," a massive grassroots fundraiser inspired by Dr. Kate's lifelong efforts to build a hospital in her community. Dr. Kate's dreams of being able to better serve her community finally came to fruition in 1954 when Lakeland Memorial Hospital opened — with Dr. Kate serving as chief of staff.
Margi Preus’s writing career began when her audition for the kindergarten musical went horribly wrong. Since then, she has written a bazillion plays, a couple of comic operas, and a bunch of books, including the Newbery Honor book Heart of a Samurai, the Minnesota Book Award and Aesop Award-winning West of the Moon, and the award-winning Enchantment Lake mystery series. Her books have been honored as ALA/ALSC Notables, landed on the New York Times bestseller list and many other “best-of” lists. Other titles include Lily Leads the Way, and the middle grade fantasy Windswept, considered one of the best books of 2022 by Kirkus and Hornbook. She lives in Duluth, MN land of snow squalls and cardamom buns.