Bring the kids down to the store Saturday October 26th between 11-12:30pm for a book signing and reading with Eve LaPlante! Her new picture book ‘Who Needs a Statue?’ features influential women and BIPOC figures who have statues around the country.

We’ll have books for sale and you can always call in to preorder as well!

More info about Eve & the book:
”Eve’s latest book is the “powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) picture book Who Needs a Statue? (Tilbury House), coauthored by Margy Burns Knight and illustrated by Alix Delinois. “A gallery of intrepid American groundbreakers, pathfinders, and activists who have earned commemorative statues,” Kirkus added. “Deserving but less prominent luminaries shine more brightly here.”

Publishers Weekly praised Who Needs a Statue? as “a reportorial work that opens conversations about public representation… LaPlante, making a children’s book debut, and Knight (Africa Is Not a Country) introduce sculptures across the country that immortalize people of color and women... Paintings by Delinois (Greetings, Leroy) show scenes from the subjects’ lives as well as the statues in their settings.”

Eve has published five nonfiction books for adults, including three biographies of her ancestors. American Jezebel tells the true story of Anne Hutchinson, the colonial teacher and founding mother. Salem Witch Judge, about Samuel Sewall, the 1692 judge who became an abolitionist and feminist, won the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction. NPR named Marmee & Louisa, Eve’s dual biography of Louisa May Alcott and her mother, a top ten book of the year. Eve also collected and edited a companion volume to Marmee & Louisa, a compilation of writings by Abigail May Alcott, My Heart Is Boundless. Eve’s first book, Seized, was a narrative portrait of a common brain disorder that can alter personality. In this “fascinating account of medical research,” Howard Gardner said, “LaPlante shows how a brain scar may cause bizarre aggressive or sexual behavior – and works of profound creative imagination,” including works by Dostoevsky, van Gogh, and Lewis Carroll. Kirkus Reviews said, “LaPlante’s descriptions of the human brain are wonderfully concrete, her historical research is well presented, and her empathy for TLE’s victims is clear.”

Eve has four grown children and lives in Rockport with her husband.”