Upcoming Author Events & Readings
7 upcoming author events and readings from Ten Trees Books, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →
Tue Oct 6 · 7:00pm
Mel Thacker launches Scrubbing In, a debut memoir that runs from a childhood spent cycling through homelessness to becoming a surgeon, and then to the panic attacks in the operating room that made the identity she had built stop fitting. She is an ENT surgeon, a coach and a two-time TEDx speaker.
Sat Oct 10 · 11:00am
Local author Monica Acker reads two of her picture books at a Saturday-morning story time: The Legend of Leo, written to be hammed up out loud, and Pirate Baby: A Booty-ful Tale, about Cally, a fearsome pirate captain who takes whatever she wants and gives nothing back while her crew do everything they can to please her.
Sat Oct 17 · 11:00am
Author-illustrator Maddie Frost reads The Stuffie Stand, her picture book about Moose, who sews stuffed animals in his shed and sells them to the neighbourhood. When orders outgrow him he has to ask for help from Mabel, a rival maker whose bedazzled stuffies he does not care for, and the competition turns into a partnership and a friendship. It is a half-hour story time for young children.
Sat Oct 24 · 11:00am
Mary E. Cronin, the daughter of a firefighter, shares Trucks, Boots, and Bells: Firehouse Poems, a picture book of eighteen poems and fun facts in which firefighters pull on their boots and race through the city. The poems, in ballads, haiku and other forms with titles like "Pole Slider" and "Attack Hose," are illustrated by Aaron Marin. The storytime is aimed at children fascinated by firefighting.
Sat Nov 7 · 11:30am
Kelly Riera reads her picture book What Trucks Love to Do 2: Help and Serve Crew, a celebration of community helpers "and all they do to keep our towns rolling." A crew races, rescues, fixes, cleans and serves its way through town, from fire trucks that spray to garbage trucks that munch and food trucks that sizzle. It is the second What Trucks Love to Do book.
Sat Nov 14 · 11:30am
Carrie Finison reads Even Steven: A Book About Sharing, a picture book about a boy who likes everything split perfectly even, until he meets things that cannot be halved, like a nickel, a book or a slide. Taking turns helps, but Steven is left wondering whether some things can be even but not fair. Finison and her illustrator also made Don't Hug Doug.
Sat Nov 21 · 11:30am
Phaea Crede returns to read All I Want For Christmas: A Holiday Countdown, a picture book for ages 3 to 7 and the first in her Holiday Critter Countdown series, in which animal friends count down to holidays. With twelve days to go, Reina the Reindeer sets off across the North Pole in search of her two front teeth and finds friendship instead.
