Back to school signing in Boulder, CO!

This Saturday, a collection of children’s author who write for tots-to-teens, will be at the Boulder, Colorado Barnes & Noble to help get families and teachers ready for school. I’ll be there to read An Eye for Color: The Story of Josef Albers and to demonstrate some of the activities in the the end pages. This is a perfect book for art teachers, or teachers who want to incorporate more literature and art in their classrooms. The book is about an artist who spend 27 years of his life to study how colors react when put next to other colors. He called it the “interaction of color.”

So come by the Barnes & Noble at 2999 Pearl Street in Boulder. I’ll be there from 1-2:30 or so. The event lasts until 4 p.m.

My school-themed books in my Night Before series will be available for me to sign as well. This week I’m thrilled to announce that The Night Before Kindergarten, The Night Before Preschool, and The Night Before First Grade are #1, 2 and 4 on Publishers Weekly’s bestsellers list for children’s books.

Here’s a little write up that was published in Publishers Weekly:

A Brainstorm on the Subway

An overheard New York subway conversation doesn’t often lead to a million-copy bestseller—but that’s what happened to Jane O’Connor. The Grosset & Dunlap editor had been publishing a series of “night before” holiday books, such as The Night Before Halloween and The Night Before Easter, all by Natasha Wing. But when O’Connor sat next to a little girl who was telling her mother what she was going to do the night before starting kindergarten, something clicked. The Night Before Kindergarten, an 8×8 paperback, came out in 2001, written by Wing and illustrated by Julie Durrell, and has shipped over 1.4 million copies. “It was just a chance conversation,” O’Connor said. “I owe it all to the MTA.” Combined with its successors, The Night Before First Grade and The Night Before Preschool, and others for various holidays, more than 4.8 million copies of books in the 17-title series have shipped. In earlier years, Kindergarten, First Grade, and Preschool would show up on bestseller lists starting in July with the impending start of the school year, but these days, O’Connor said, “what’s interesting is that sales have ballooned, and the books sell all year round now.” The Night Before Your Birthday and The Night Before Hanukkah are due in 2014, as are paper-over-board hardcover editions of Kindergarten, First Grade, and Preschool.�—Diane Roback

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