Saturday, November 19, 1pm: Kevin Kling & Chris Monroe

Start: 19 Nov 2011 1:00 pm

Timezone: America/Chicago

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. We hardly think we even need to say anything about this event.

Kevin Kling?! Chris Monroe?! Who could ask for anything mo'?!

Seriously, though, when we found out that A) Kevin Kling was writing a picture book and B) Chris Monroe was illustrating it, we almost peed our pants. Well, not exactly, but the point is, we were EXCITED!

And you should be, too, because both the words and the illustrations in Big Little Brother are hilarious, yet somehow touching. Just what you want from a picture book!

You should also come and meet Kevin Kling and Chris Monroe. Because did we mention that they are BOTH going to be at this event? Well, they are.

Book List

Big Little Brother (Hardcover)

By Kevin Kling, Chris Monroe

$17.95

ISBN-13: 9780873518444
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Borealis Books, 11/2011

Being an older brother has its benefits, of that there’s little doubt. But how would you feel if your little brother grew to be bigger than you? And what if he insisted on touching all your things and following you everywhere you went? It’s enough to frustrate the most even-keeled of kids.

The narrator of Big Little Brother wants nothing more than to escape his brother’s sticky fingers. Then an encounter at the old Woman in the Shoe play area teaches him that a pesky younger sibling can actually be a pal. Maybe having a brother, big or small, is a blessing after all.

Storyteller Kevin Kling, described as “one of our great national treasures” by public radio personality KristaTippett, has delighted audiences through his performances, plays, and audio and printed collections for decades. Illustrator Chris Monroe brings her witty, slightly subversive artistic sense to this heartwarming tale. the result is a playful, tender look at the familiar pains and joys of being a sibling.

Storyteller Kevin Kling is the author of two books and several plays, including the musical Busytown, with composer Michael Koerner, based on the classic and amusing picture books by Richard Scarry. Painter and cartoonist Chris Monroe draws the weekly comic strip Violet Days and is the author and illustrator of Monkey with a Tool Belt and Sneaky Sheep, among other books for children.

Kevin Kling's Holiday Inn (Hardcover)

By Kevin Kling

$22.95

ISBN-13: 9780873517669
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Borealis Books, 11/2009

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Celebrate all the holidays–and then some–with renowned storyteller Kevin Kling, whose sense of the ridiculous never gets in the way of his appreciation for human nature.

Kevin Kling's first book, The Dog Says How, brought readers into his wonderful world of the skewed and significant mundane. Kling does it again in Kevin Kling's Holiday Inn, a romp through a yearful of holidays and a lifetime of gathering material.

A wiener dog with an amazing capacity for destruction impresses the whole family and contributes to their collection of favorite disastrous Christmas stories. A Choctaw and a nun go trick-or-treating on Halloween. A boy makes a frightening decision every year when he chooses which classmate gets the "Be Mine" Valentine. Kevin takes his mom to a Fourth of July demolition derby–and then he takes an epic trip around the bases at a ball game on Memorial Day.

From tomfoolery with his brother in the backseat of their dad's car through his carefully considered instructions for ice fishing, Kling never loses the spirit of his story or holds back on its humor.

"Kevin Kling's stories are not merely delightful. They are surprising, wise and redemptive. He is one of our great national treasures."

–Krista Tippett, public radio host and founder of Speaking of Faith

"Kling has an enviable gift for storytelling, a sense of humor rooted equally in pain and whimsy...and an uncanny ability to transform intensely personal memories, especially those of family life, into something instantly recognizable and, at the same time, strangely exalted."

–Chicago Sun Times

Kevin Kling is a well-known playwright and storyteller, and his commentaries can be heard on public radio. his plays and adaptations have been performed around the world. He lives in Minneapolis.