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Ren’s Pencil Read-Aloud with Bo Lu

Event date:
Sunday, May 31
Event time:
11:30am-11:50am
Location:
YouthLit Read Aloud Stage in the Park
Audiences:
ChildrenElementary
Themes:
FictionYouthlit
Booksales:
Ashay By the Bay Books, right by the stage in the park
Access:
FREE
Bo Lu
Bo Lu

Ren is heartbroken to leave Popo and her magical stories behind to move to a new country where nothing feels familiar. One day, Ren discovers that with her pencil, she can bring to life what she can’t find the words to say! Through drawing, she bridges the gap between her two worlds. Join award-winning author and illustrator Bo Lu in this read-aloud of Ren’s Pencil, a heartfelt tale about immigration and imagination.

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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