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Saturday, February 18th
Randy Riley's Really Big Hit
Book Launching 10 am to Noon
Chris Van Dusen

Randy likes space, robots, and baseball, but he can't ace everything . . . or can he? Chris Van
Dusen knocks one out of the park with a comical ode to ingenuity.

Randy Riley loves two things: science and baseball. When it comes to the solar system, the
constellations, and all things robot, Randy is a genius. But on the baseball diamond? Not so
much. He tries . . . but whiffs every time. Then, one night, Randy sees something shocking
through his Space Boy telescope: it's a fireball, and it's headed right for his town! Randy does
the math, summons all of his science smarts, and devises a plan that will save the day in a
spectacular way. Once again, Chris Van Dusen winds up his visual humor, dizzying perspectives,
perfect pacing, and rollicking rhyme and delivers a hit to make readers stand up and cheer.

This will mark the 7th book both written and illustrated by Van Dusen. The others include
Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee, A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee, Learning to Ski with Mr.
Magee, If I Built a Car, which won the E. B. White Read Aloud Award from the Association of
Booksellers, The Circus Ship, which has been chosen by the State of Maine to be given to all
public school kindergartners as had Down to the Sea several years before and King Hugo's Huge
Ego. Chris Van Dusen and Robert McCloskey are the only authors who have had more than one
title given out to inspire school children to love reading. Van Dusen also illustrated the 6 books
in the Mercy Watson series written by Kate DiCamillo. He lives right here in Camden with his
family.

Kristen Lindquist’s poems are like a luminous field guide to the wildlife
and mountain trails of Northern New England: she not only records
vireo, blackpoll, tide shift and eon-layered rock face, but also shows us
the fluidity between inner and outer worlds. Her rich language and
vision make us long for the very world we live in, but rarely enter as fully
or see as vividly as she does. Her attentiveness is indeed a kind of prayer.
—BETSY SHOLL

Like the crows that inhabit these lines, Kristen’s adept poems shimmer
and soar. She describes the natural world and our human place inside it
with the attention of prayer or plea. And then you turn the page, and she
makes you laugh. This book leaves you full and glad to be alive.
—ELIZABETH TIBBETTS

Kristen Lindquist’s poems are not to be missed. Brisk but thoughtful,
clear and inviting, they plunge us into the vulnerability of being
human—and also into the rapturous joy of a human being at one with
the all-sustaining metaphor of nature that still, somehow, manages to
surround us and give us life.
—KATE BARNES

Kristen Lindquist is a Maine native currently living and working in Rockland, Maine. She
attended Middlebury College and received an MFA from the University of Oregon. For many
summers she was on the administrative staff of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She has
taught various writing workshops, as well as for the Johns Hopkins University's Center for
Talented Youth, and has been a board member of the Live Poets Society. Her writing has been
published in such venues as the Maine Times, Potato Eyes, Feminist Times, Café Review, and
Down East Magazine. Noteworthy awards include the 1992 Bread Loaf Poetry Prize, the 2001
Red Fox Award, and second-place for the Penobscot Watershed Poetry Award in 1998.

Thursday, February 16th
Reading & Signing 6pm to 8:30
Transportation
Poems by Kristen Lindquist