Fireworks Read-Aloud with Illustrator Cátia Chien!

Event date:
Sunday, May 31
Event time:
1:00pm-1:20pm
Audiences:
Themes:
Booksales:
Ashay By the Bay Books, right by the stage in the park
Access:
FREE

POP! As a hot day sizzles into evening, everyone on stoops and sidewalks looks skyward on this special summer night—the Fourth of July! Join Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Cátia Chien in this sparkling read-aloud of Fireworks, a colorful picture book about two siblings who celebrate this special day in their city.

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

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