Monday, September 27, 2010

Flora's Launch Party!


The official launch party for Flora's Very Windy Day at Children's Book World was a rousing success and loads of fun. The store was all decked out with a wall of books, balloons, and an eager crowd and Jeanne Birdsall was decked out in super-special heavy-duty red boots.

Jeanne and I chatted about how the book came to be and the collaborative nature of picture books. Then Jeanne riveted the crowd by reading a super-secret excerpt from the upcoming third Penderwicks novel. Speaking as a Penderwicks fanatic myself, it is going to be a looooooong wait until the book is published in May of 2011.

And to top it off, the good folks at CBW even had a delicious cake made. Thanks to everyone who came by and thanks to CBW for the grand send-off!

4 comments:

Michelle Henninger said...

Looks like a great time! I love Jeanne's boots!

Michelle said...

Congrats! Looks like a lovely store and a great event. And a really awesome cake! :)

Casey G. said...

What fun! So, wished we could have been there, it looks like it was magical.

Matt Phelan said...

Thanks, guys! Mikki, it is indeed a lovely store and they provide a delicious cake. You should stop by on a tour!