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1:00 pm EST
September 30, 2023

Workshop Room 400, NYU Tandon, 5 MetroTech Center

Children / Creative Activity

Storytime and Drawing with Nikki Grimes and Brian Pinkney

Join Nikki Grimes and Brian Pinkney for A Walk in the Woods. Author Nikki Grimes will lead a storytime and share how the picture book came to be. Co-illustrator Brian Pinkney will then lead attendees in a map-drawing activity, encouraging them to find treasure in their own backyard.

Participating authors

Nikki Grimes

Nikki Grimes

Brian Pinkney

Brian Pinkney

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Asian American Writers Worksop
BAM
Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn Public Library
The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College
The Center for Fiction
National Book Foundation
The New York Review Of Books
NYU
Poetry Society Of America
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
St. Francis College
Whiting Foundation