Visit us this weekend at Chestnut Hill Book Festival

      Though the shop will be open Friday till 6:30, Saturday Ellen will open only from 9-2 and I'll be at the Chestnut Hill Book Festival. I'll be there from 4-8 on Friday, and 11-7 on Saturday and Sunday. I'll have a booth along the driveway of the Stagecrafters Theater on Germantown Avenue right next to Bredenbecks. Yum !  I'll have all sorts of show stock with me and also have two book signings. Amy Ignatow, a Mt Airy artist/cartoonist who lives just a few blocks from here, will be talking about her best-selling book, THE POPULARITY PAPERS, and we'll be selling copies for her to sign. The book got a wonderful review in the New York Times, " a first novel written and illustrated by the hugely talented Amy Ignatow, invites us to enter the world of two best friends, Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang, through a scrapbook they create together over the course of fifth grade. It details their 'very brilliant plan' to observe the popular girls in junior high. 'Then, when we have enough information about the popular girls, we'll know what it is that they do to be popular and we'll try to do the same things to see if we become popular as well' - for example conducting an experiment to see if a given article of clothing can help 'improve social standing.' The girls research leads them into zany adventures, memorialized in notes, poems and doodles that capture the fun of an underground correspondence."   Amy will be in the booth from 1:30-3:30 on Saturday and Sunday.

John Tordoff is a young friend of mine who recently graduated from Chestnut Hill Academy and is headed to Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the fall. John loves strange, fun facts and has been sharing them, on a daily basis, for some time with his friends. He decided to compile them into TORDOFF'S FUN FACT and has self published the volume and we'll be having him at our booth from 4-6 pm on Saturday and Sunday. Come and meet this young Merriam Webster and offer him some fun facts of your own for the second volume of his book.

By the way, the painting on the train station continues and we're starting to see some improvement. C.C. is supervising from the as yet unimproved section of wall but she is a talented supvisor and we expect the results will prove her work to be worthwhile. Come and see for yourself. They'll be painting this weekend, even around the closed up front door so we expect big changes when we reopen on Monday.

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