Holiday Kickoff Party with Matt Tavares!

Join us for our annual kickoff to the holiday season celebration! Bestselling author MATT TAVARES leads a storytime reading of DASHER followed by a book signing. We'll also celebrate with treats, Christmas carols, activities, holiday decorations, and more! Make sure to wear your favorite holiday attire!

Registration is required for attendees of all ages. Each individual person (including parents and children) must register due to fire-code restrictions.

• ADULT REGISTRATION: Includes entry + one copy of "Dasher"
• CHILD REGISTRATION: Entry only. Children of any age (including those in strollers) must register. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

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Return to the beloved Christmas story of Dasher—now with exclusive additions featuring art from the Disney Jr. and Disney+ animated special!
Dasher is an adventurous young reindeer with a wish in her heart. She spends her days with her family under the hot sun in a traveling circus, but she longs for a different life—one where there is snow beneath her hooves and the North Star above her head. One day, when the opportunity arises, Dasher seizes her destiny and takes off in pursuit of the life she wants to live. It’s not long before she meets a nice man in a red suit with a horse-drawn sleigh—a man named Santa. And soon, with the help of a powerful Christmas wish, nothing will be the same.

MATT TAVARES is the author-illustrator of the New York Times best-selling picture book Dasher and its sequels, Dasher Can’t Wait for Christmas and Dasher and the Polar Bear, as well as Red and Lulu, the graphic novel Hoops, and several sports biographies, including Becoming Babe Ruth and Growing Up Pedro. He is also the illustrator of Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by Jeff Gottesfeld, The Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup, ’Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, and Over the River and Through the Wood by L. Maria Child, among many other picture books. Matt Tavares lives in Ogunquit, Maine.