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<\/a>I\u2019m sure you know that Brian is giving this year\u2019s prestigious May Hill Arbuthnot lecture. His topic is Love Is a Dangerous Angel: Thoughts on Queerness and Family in Children\u2019s Books.<\/em> Sure to be provocative as well as entertaining, the event takes place on Friday, May 8, at 7:00 pm at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. Doors open at 6:00 pm. The lecture is free, but tickets are required. Visit dclibrary.org\/selznick for everything you need to know, from a special hotel rate to evening logistics.<\/p>\n Bring the family! On Saturday, DC Public Library will host \u201cA Visit with Brian Selznick\u201d at 2:00 pm. Children may learn about his life and work during the Q&A and will then have a rare opportunity to meet him in the signing line. Book-related activities will be part of the fun. Guests are also encouraged to explore the interactive, multi-media exhibit at the library entitled, Building Wonder, Designing Dreams: The Bookmaking of Brian Selznick. Enter 8\u2019 pages, <\/em>play with an automaton, \u201cpilot\u201d the route that Amelia and Eleanor flew in a Google Earth simulation, discover Smithsonian treasures in the Cabinet of Wonder. Still wondering if you should reserve your trip? Check this out: Spring in DC<\/a><\/p>\n We hope to see you in May!<\/p>\n Wendy Lukehart Greetings, colleagues! I want to invite you to visit Washington, D.C. this spring. Azaleas, moonlit walks to the Lincoln Memorial, and Brian Selznick\u2014does it get any better?! I\u2019m sure you know that Brian is giving this year\u2019s prestigious May Hill Arbuthnot lecture. His topic is Love Is a Dangerous Angel: Thoughts on Queerness and Family in Children\u2019s Books. Sure to be provocative as well as entertaining, the event takes place on Friday, May 8, at 7:00 pm at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library. Doors open at 6:00 pm. The lecture is free, but tickets are required. Visit dclibrary.org\/selznick for everything you need to know, from a special hotel rate to evening logistics. Bring the family! On Saturday, DC Public Library will host \u201cA Visit with Brian Selznick\u201d at 2:00 pm. Children may learn about his life and work during the Q&A and will then have a rare opportunity…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[707],"class_list":["post-10383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blogger","tag-arbuthnot-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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