Jacob’s Missing Book Read-Aloud with Sarah & Ian Hoffman

Event date:
Sunday, May 31
Event time:
4:00pm-4:20pm
Audiences:
Themes:
Booksales:
Ashay By the Bay Books, right by the stage in the park
Access:
FREE

Noah is confused about Emily’s family, so he asks her―who’s Papa and who’s Dad? Jacob knows just how to explain, but he can’t. The book he needs isn’t in the library anymore! Ms. Reeves tries to explain why the book is no longer in the library and what all the fuss is about. Join Sarah & Ian Hoffmanin this kid-friendly read-aloud of Jacob’s Missing Book, a story about book banning, censorship, and LGBTQ+ rights.

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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