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What Makes Fern Curl? Read-Aloud with Tomiiko Baker

Event date:
Sunday, May 31
Event time:
1:30pm-1:50pm
Location:
YouthLit Read Aloud Stage in the Park
Audiences:
ChildrenElementary
Themes:
Bookworm Block PartyFictionYouthlit
Booksales:
Ashay By the Bay Books, right by the stage in the park
Access:
FREE
Tomiiko Baker
Tomiiko Baker

Have you ever wondered what makes hair curly? Jem and her irrepressible hair, named Fern, are sometimes at odds. After Fern sprang right out of her hairstyle for picture day, Jem and her dad embark on a journey to solve the mystery in her coils! Find out what happens at this read-aloud of What Makes Fern Curl? with Tomiiko Baker!

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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