Left Bank Books Virtual Kids Club: Storytime & A Book Launch with James Solheim
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Left Bank Books welcomes Missouri native & children's book author James Solheim, who will discuss the stories behind the world's most delicious, nutritious, and amazing foods--from the Stone Age to the future in Eat Your Woolly Mammoths!: Two Million Years of the World's Most Amazing Food Facts, from the Stone Age to the Future, on our Facebook Live Page at 1pm CT on April 23rd. James will read aloud from the book and discuss some of the fun facts and recipes from the book. Join us for this Pre-Publication LAUNCH EVENT on our Facebook Live Page and order a SIGNED* copy of Eat Your Woolly Mammoths!: Two Million Years of the World's Most Amazing Food Facts, from the Stone Age to the Future from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores!
*James Solheim will sign (and even personalize) bookplates for this event!
Food, glorious food!
If there's one thing that transcends time, it's our love for food! But what did people generations ago consume? And what will we eat in the years ahead? James Solheim's Eat Your Woolly Mammoths! serves up the stories behind the world's most delicious, nutritious, and amazing foods--from the Stone Age to the future. For readers who love the fascinating facts that bring history to life. Let the feast begin!
Would you like a plate of woolly mammoth? Or perhaps a sample of fresh tuna eyeballs? From scorpions on sticks and llama salami to oysters and chocolate chip cookies, you'll travel through the centuries and around the world and discover the amazing foods that have been eaten--and enjoyed--throughout history.
Eat Your Woolly Mammoths! explores the history of food and is full of fun, digestible facts that young historians, cooks, and scientists will gobble up. An accessible, educational, and funny text combined with laugh-out-loud illustrations make this ideal pick for independent readers and snackers everywhere. A great choice for readers who munched through Ripley's Believe It or Not: Fun Facts and Silly Stories and the National Geographic Kids: Weird but True books.
Includes sidebars, fun facts, recipes, additional resources, and more!
James Solheim is the author of It's Disgusting and We Ate It!, illustrated by Eric Brace. Powered as a child by his grandmas' Norwegian cooking--lefse and sandbakkels and søtsuppe (potato tortillas, sugar cookies, and sweet soup)--he now speaks Norwegian with his own kids and continues his family's traditions. But his grandmas' kindness is his biggest family tradition of all. He lives in Nebraska.
To order a personalized bookplate, just leave your note for personalization in the order comments on your online order. James will sign bookplates that will be sent out with your book. The book will be officially released on May 3rd. Order a copy before that date to request personalization.
You can watch live on Left Bank's YouTube channel. To participate on Facebook, log in to your personal Facebook account, go to Left Bank Books' Facebook Live Page, and wait for the livestream to begin on the page (you may need to refresh the page periodically until the stream begins). You can watch on either location without logging in, but in order to comment or interact with the program, you must be logged in.
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