Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/23/2019
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Community Bookstore
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Join us for milk, cookies, and storytime with Galia Bernstein, author of Leyla and I Am A Cat!
About Leyla:
Leyla is sick of her big, loud, overbearing family. They are always chatting, snuggling, and grooming each other (ew!), and–for Leyla–there’s no escape from their attention. So, she decides to run away until she can’t hear (or smell) her baboon troop anymore. In the middle of her desert habitat, she finds a lizard sunning himself. Unlike her family, the lizard loves to sit alone, be quiet, and do absolutely nothing at all. Leyla joins the lizard, and after soaking up some quiet time, she feels recharged and ready to return home to her large, ever-doting family. Now that she knows where she can always find a little peace, Leyla can embrace the chaos and the kisses with open arms. From the celebrated author-illustrator of I Am a Cat, Leyla shows kids how to appreciate both the wild and the mild.
Galia Bernstein was born and raised in Israel. She started her career as a designer and cartoonist in the Israeli Army’s magazine, and was the art director of two children’s magazines and a writer of a monthly column in a computer magazine, before moving to New York to study illustration in Parsons the New School for design. Today, she is a full time illustrator and author who also works in textile design and ceramics.
Her debut author/illustrated picture book, I Am a Cat, was published by Abrams Books in 2018 and has co-editioned into over 12 languages and countries, across Europe and around the world. Her second picture book, Leyla, published May 2019 with a starred review from PW. Galia lives in Brooklyn, NY.