Inklings Children’s Books hosts noted book publisher Claudia Bedrick for a February 16 reading at the Waitsfield bookstore in the Mad River Green Shops.
The event takes place at 11 a.m. and features Bedrick, founder of Enchanted Lion Books, reading from one of her house’s award-winning books, “There Was a Shadow.” She will be joined by Emilie Robert Wong and Emma Vittoria for the event. The event is open to all and will be followed by shadow craft with Wong and Vittoria.
“There Was a Shadow” was named as the New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2024. The book was also selected by the New York Times as one of the best children’s books of 2024. It was written by Bruce Handy and illustrated by Lisk Feng.
The story follows a girl from dawn through dusk into night as she and her friends play with their shadows, take refuge in the shade of a large tree, and set out again for home in the violet glow of twilight. “There Was a Shadow” invites readers to look up and down, in and out – to notice the position of the sun and the corresponding length or shortness of shadows, as well as the subtle ways in which light and shadow reveal and obscure things both in the world and in themselves.
Bedrick is the publisher, editor, and art director of Enchanted Lion Books, an award-winning, independent publisher based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Enchanted Lion Books has received many accolades. In 2024 alone, their title “There’s a Ghost in the Garden” was named as the New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2024. In January, their middle grade book, “Johnny, the Sea, and Me” was recognized by the American Library Association as a Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book!
Enchanted Lion's new imprint, “Unruly,” focuses on picture books aimed at teens and adults.
Prior to the Sunday event at Inklings, Bedrick will be at an invitation event at the home of Marydale DeBor in Warren Village.
