Join us for an event with award-winning, bestselling children's author Mac Barnett, who will give a presentation entitled Behold! The Picture Book.

This event is free and open to the public, and will take place at Pierce Middle School, 451 Central Avenue, Milton, Massachusetts. The event is appropriate for kids of all ages and their caregivers.

Doors open at 10:45 AM, and the author will give a talk at 11:00 AM, followed by a book signing.

Registration through our Events Calendar is encouraged. Sponsored by the Milton Library Foundation, and supported by the Friends of the Milton Public Library.

About the presentation: Behold! The Picture Book

Mac Barnett invites us to look anew at a great literature hiding in plain sight: the children’s picture book. Picture books are a vibrant and sophisticated art form; they’re also often underestimated. Barnett will show us how these books work and reflect on why our experiences reading them—as kids and adults—can be so powerful. It’s an eye-opening, entertaining case for the picture book’s rightful place among our best literature.

About Mac:

Mac Barnett is the ninth U.S. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, appointed by the Library of Congress and Every Child a Reader. He’s a New York Times-bestselling author of stories for children and the writer, with Jon Klassen, of Looking at Picture Books, a newsletter for adults about how picture books work. Barnett's work has been translated into more than 30 languages and sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. His books have won many prizes, including two Caldecott Honors, three New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Awards, three E.B. White Read Aloud Awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Germany’s Jugendliteraturpreis, China’s Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award, The Netherlands’ Silver Griffel, and Italy’s Premio Orbil. He is the co-creator, with Jon Klassen, of Shape Island, a stop-motion animated series on Apple TV+, based on their best-selling Shapes series of picture books. For more than two decades, Barnett's trademark multigenerational appeal has left an impact on young readers, and now he's committed to having meaningful conversations with adult audiences. In his lectures across the country, Barnett champions the power of picture books and the brilliance of the kids who read them. His mission to talk to adults stems from a desire to unpack why children’s literature is often underestimated or overlooked. Barnett lives in Oakland, California.