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Photo Archives
Spring 2008
Author/illustrator Mark Teague shares his latest collaboration with Jane Yolen, How Do Dinosaurs Go to School
Mark Teague, Magic Tree staff and family show many of Mark Teague's accomplishments.Robin Brande shared some of her research strategies while writing her books.
Award-winning author Shannon Hale discusses her writing and her book Book of a Thousand Days.
Shannon signs books for her fans.Emerson Spartz of Mugglenet.com visits Oak Park.
Trenton Lee Stewart, author of The Mysterious Benedict Society visited Roosevelt Middle School
We celebrated the 50th anniversary of The Cat in the Hat
Author Kimberly Willis Holt visits the Magic Tree gang.
2006 -
Our Fancy Nancy party on January 11, 2006 was a huge success!
Blue Balliett, (author of The Wright 3 and Chasing Vermeer came for a signing in March 2006.
May 20th storytime featuring Lillie's Big Day by Kevin Henkes also featured a set of lovely bride's maids and a bride!
Author Carol Hunt Senderak shares her book Mommy in my Pocket.
It’s Bunny Storytime with Magic Tree’s own big bunny, Maggy Bokum on April 15th
Author/illustrator Peter Brown shares this year’s funny funny book Flight of the Dodo
Author/photograper Arlene Alda visits in April
Marc Brown during his May 1st visit.
British young adult author, Kevin Brooks autographs books at the Oak Park Public Library
Marissa Moss, author of the popular Amelia books and the Magic Tree staff on her May 9th visit
Marc Brown visits Magic Tree Bookstore
British young adult author, Kevin Brooks visits Oak Park
Author/Illustrator Peter McCarty talks about his latest book Moon Plane October 8.
2005 -
The Three Legends, Ashley Bryan, Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist visited The Magic Tree Bookstore and local schools, February 2005.
Derek Anderson is surrounded by Rose, Iris, Maggy, Little Quack books and his newest book, Gladys Goes Out to Lunch, during his recent visit. 5/5/05
Amy Lowry Poole's visit to The Magic Tree Bookstore, May 2005
Patrick Carman was a big hit with pretzels dipped in frosting, signed posters and his fantasy novel Dark Hills Divide.
Everyone had a great time kicking off summer 2005 on June 21st, decorating flip-flops.
Jane Yolen and her son Adam Stemple reveal some of the joys and challenges of collaborating on their new book, Pay the Piper when they visited in June, 2005.
Mark Weaver, Indiana Teacher of the Year & Disney Teacher of the Year brought all kinds of fun things to explore along with Brain Quest on a Sunday in June, 2005.
The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Book Release event on July 15 was a day-long celebration of magic, imagination, youth and literature all around the theme of Harry Potter. Click here for photos of the countdown to midnight.
Author Jeff Brumbeau joins Magic Tree gang in showing off his latest work, The Quiltmaker's Journey.
Magic Tree brought author Kate Klise to St. Mary's School in Riverside, Illinois.
The Magic Tree Bookstore brought author and Martial Arts expert Jeff Stone to Congress Park School in Brookfield.
Our celebration of the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix on June, 2003 was a great success!November 2003 - Jon Muth, illustrator and author, visited a River Forest school and painted right on the spot!
Iris dressed as a fairy in honor of visit from David Ellwand and Eugenie Bird (Fairie-ality) in November 2003.
On March 22, 2004, Garth Nix, author of the popular Keys to the
Kingdom Series and other fantasy novels, signed books at the store.Horace Mann school in Oak Park is enthralled with pop-up master David A. Carter, March 2004
March 2004 - The renowned Tomie dePaola is surrounded by Magic Tree's kitchen angels.
On Friday April 23, 2004 Amy Timberlake and her husband Phil, who is world famous for his spectacular horse sound effects, visited Magic Tree and read from Amy's book, the Golden Kite Award winner The Dirty Cowboy.
April 2004 - Andy Griffiths came all the way from Australia to talk about his "butt" books, especially his newest, Zombie Butts from Uranus.
Saturday, Sept. 11,2004- Hello! Hello! Dan Zanes came to visit.
On Saturday, Sept. 25th, 2004, Kathrine Holabird lead Magic Tree staff in ballet practice during her visit.
Catherine Thimmesh celebrated her latest non-fiction book Madam President with Iris and Rose.
Creator of the Hermux Tantamoq adventures, Michael Hoeye meets Oak Park's own Hermux in the person of Sarah Pooley.
Author Carolyn Crimi (green hair) and Magic Tree staffers with Carolyn's books October 2004.
T.A. Barron, the tallest one, and some of his books and fans. His latest book is The Great Tree of Avalon. October 11, 2004
Award-winning author Pam Munoz Ryan answers a question about Esperanza Rising October 14, 2004.