LITERATURE + LECTURES

Blue Willow Bookshop presents  Brandon Mull and James Dashner Celebrate Children's Book Week: book signings and discussions.  

We're honored to have been chosen as an official site to celebrate Children's Book Week. Our guests will be Brandon Mull and James Dashner. Brandon is the author of the Fablehaven series for children and James has written the 13th Reality series for children and The Maze Runner for young adults.

Brandon Mull - Brandon Mull resides in a happy little valley near the mouth of a canyon with his wife and three children. He spent two years living in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile where he learned Spanish and juggling. He once won a pudding eating contest in the park behind his grandma’s house, earning a gold medal. Brandon is the author of the New York Times bestselling Fablehaven series and The Candy Shop War.

James Dashner -  James Dashner is the author of the children's fantasy series and adult books. The 13th Reality, and the Jimmy Fincher Saga. His novel The Journal of Curious Letters was chosen for a 2008 Borders Original Voices pick. He has been published by Cedar Fort, Inc. and by Shadow Mountain Press, known for their popular children's novels series Leven Thumps and Fablehaven. However, Delacorte a division of Random House, is publishing his new series, The Maze Runner the first of which was out Fall 2009.

Dashner's series The 13th Reality is about a boy named Atticus Higginbottom who receive mysterious letters from a man named M.G. He has sent these letters to several other kids around the world because a thirteenth reality has appeared and is constructed with a mutated version of Chi'karda (the mysterious force that controls quantum physics). M.G.'s loyal assistant Mistress Jane betrays M.G. at the discovery of this reality and tries to use the mutated Chi'karda to enslave the other realities and eventually the Prime reality.

James Dashner was born in Georgia and attended Brigham Young University. Dashner currently lives in South Jordan City, Utah and is married with four children.

Join us to celebrate kids and books -- two of our very favorite things! As a special offer, the first 40 people to buy a book at the event will receive a Children's Book Week tote and poster with artwork designed by Jon Muth.