Guest blog by Jeanne Marie – Kansas City PRC
Saturday, November 20th, Jeanne Marie, Emory, Rachel and Christin got together at the Country Club Plaza Barnes and Noble in Kansas City to celebrate Pegasus!
right to left: Rachel, Emory, Jeanne Marie, and Christin
The bookstore was amazingly helpful – they had purchased REAMS of copies of Pegasus, and set up two tables, one for books and one for cookies (freshly baked, yum!) and a thermos of hot chocolate.
Look at all the yummy books and yummy cookies!
This particular Barnes and Noble is four stories high, rather than sprawling horizontally over the landscape, and we were set up on the top floor, in the entryway of the Children’s Section, around the corner from Fantasy/SciFi, and along the traffic path from the escalator – perfect!! A kind staffer did announcements for us every 20 minutes, inviting folks to come up and have cookies and talk with us, learn more about Robin McKinley and hear some readings from Pegasus. If was really fun to introduce people to Robin’s books! We had all brought various personal copies, and also made a point of swiping bookstore copies from the shelves, for easier access. We were able to make suggestions for folks and their kids based on what they already enjoyed, read excerpts, and hand them purchasable copies!
This is Rachel, pitching Pegasus and Sunshine to this couple - they went home with both!
In between schmoozing with bookstore patrons and talking about Robin’s books, the four of us chatted about what we did during the day, library science, other favorite authors, and of course, munched the cookies and gulped the hot chocolate!
Emory, first year violin performance major!
Christin moderates a blog on teen literature, among other fun things!
Rachel works as a Children's Librarian!
Around 8:00pm, we held the drawing for the two posters, won by Emory and Skye, respectively, and the Pegasus copy, won by Luxy.
Emory, proud poster winner!
Skye with her mom, our other proud poster winner!
Lucky Luxy, winner of a copy of Pegasus!
It was a really enjoyable evening , and we were delighted to get together and celebrate Robin and Pegasus!
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