Vashti Harrison at Main Library

Name: Vashti Harrison at Main Library
Start: 2025-04-05T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-05T12:00:00-04:00
Location: 96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, OH, United States, Ohio 43215

Schedule

Sat Apr 05 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, OH, United States, Ohio 43215 | Columbus, OH

Vashti Harrison, author of books including Caldecott Medal winner BIG, joins us for a family-friendly Author Talk. Free copies BIG are available for children in attendance while supplies last, courtesy of Battelle.
📍 Main Library (96 S. Grant Ave.)
No registration necessary. This event is free and open to all.
✍️ ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Vashti Harrison is the New York Times bestselling creator of Big, which was awarded the 2024 Caldecott Medal, a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor as well as Illustrator Honor. Harrison is also the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Little Leaders, Little Dreamers and Little Legends and illustrator of Lupita Nyong’o’s Sulwe, Matthew A. Cherry’s Hair Love, Andrea Beaty’s I Love You Like Yellow and Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic’s Hello, Star, among others. Harrison is also a two-time recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children.
📚 ABOUT THE BOOK:
Winner of the Caldecott Medal, BIG is the first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning creator Vashti Harrison traces a child’s journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. With spare text and exquisite illustrations, this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out and feel invisible at the same time.