Special storytime
Gibson’s Bookstore is hosting a special children’s storytime with author guest reader Jacqueline Davies as she presents Panda Pants. Stop by Gibson’s on Saturday from 10 to 10:45 a.m. for a panda story and a panda craft.
With spot-on humor, a spare text and adorable panda bear characters, this is a fun and familiar exchange between a parent and child that fans of I Don’t Want to Be a Frog will easily relate to.
I want pants, says a little panda to his father.
You are a panda, answers the father. Pandas do not wear pants.
And so begins a hilarious battle of wills when a young panda tries to convince his father why pants make perfect sense. After all, pants are soft. Pants keep you warm. Some pants even have . . . pockets. But with a menacing snow leopard lurking in the background, will the longed-for pants end up having an even greater role to play?
Davies’s humorous story, with deliciously droll illustrations from Sydney Hanson, captures the push and pull between a parent and child as they face off over the age-old dilemma of what to wear with the most heartwarming of results.
Writers in the Spotlight
Gibson’s Bookstore, the Capitol Center for the Arts and New Hampshire Public Radio are pleased to present Colson Whitehead (The Intuitionist, Zone One) and Ben Winters (The Last Policeman) on stage and in conversation at the Capitol Center for the Arts. Their discussion, led by Gracie Award-winning Virginia Prescott, host of NHPR’s Word of Mouth, will center around their new books, The Underground Railroad and Underground Airlines, which share a common theme of slavery and the Underground Railroad.
The event is Sunday at the Cap Center starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $39 for one ticket and one book, or $52 for two tickets and one book. A minimum of one book must be purchased for every two admissions.
Every instance of “2 Tickets/1 Book” will generate one ticket which will be good for two admissions. Get them at ccanh.com.
Guest Star Book Club Series
Join Gibson’s Bookstore for the new Guest Star Book Club Series. Each month we will present a new book, and the discussion will be led by a guest expert.
For October, we will be reading and discussing Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty, by John M Barry. The discussion will be led by Byron Champlin.
Champlin is a mainstay in the local civic and non-profit circles in Concord. He serves on the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital Assembly of Overseers, the city of Concord’s Economic Development Advisory Council, and the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, where he is chairman-elect.
Check it out at Gibson’s on Monday at 6:30 p.m.
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