Flying High with Crows & Ravens

Event date:
Sunday, May 31
Event time:
11:00am-11:30am
Audiences:
Booksales:
Ashay By the Bay Books, right by the stage in the park
Access:
FREE

Flap your wings and fly high with these lyrical and poignant picture books about the magnificent birds around us! Learn about the resilient and mysterious crows, who roost together by the thousands and teach us important lessons about cooperation and survival in I Am We: How Crows Come Together to Survive by Leslie Barnard Booth. Soaring alongside the crows is a special type of raven, a leucistic raven, who must rise above rejection to gain self-acceptance with the support of a child’s kind and resilient spirit in Kathryn Otoshi’s The White Raven. Warble, chirp, and chatter your way through this meaningful session, moderated by Tomiiko Baker, which will feature read-alouds and a discussion between the authors!

Moderators:

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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