Oscar, Zachary and I have really loved these books, his third book in the series comes out April 21st!!!
Candy Shop Wars is his newest book, but not in the Fablehaven series.
He was in Pocatello on February 28th, Thursday. I was so excited when I found out, I new I was going to be there. I had my mom start making a few phone calls to find out where he would be and what time. He was going to be doing some school presentations during the day and a book signing later that evening at Desert Book.
I had Mrs. Morgan, Parkridge School Librian, looking into having Brandon come to Parkridge. There is a link on his website to request he come to your school. I thought that if it didn't work out here in Nampa, I at least wanted my boys to see his presentation. So bright and early on Thursday morning, 8:00am, I loaded up my boys and we headed to good ol Poky. He was going to be at Tendoy Elementary at 1:00pm and my mom had got permission from a friend there for us to come and see. We got there early enough that we were able to meet Brandon before all the students came in. He signed our two Fablehaven books, talked to the boys for a bit, and took some pictures with us!!! (Parker didn't want to take a picture with him, so he stood with Grandma Bullock)
Here are our autographed treasures!!
The presentation was great, he used a Power Point slide show which was brillant for kids! Brandon had all the kids attention the whole time. At first he told a little bit about himself, and talked about the questions he gets asked most. He really focused on how reading and creating can increase your imagination. He showed pictures of the people who inspired him as a writer like C.S. Lewis, J.R. Tolken, and J.K. Rowling. He even had some kids role play to come up with a story line to show how your imagination works.
Here is a picture of him doing this. I think somewhere in the story there was a big purple dinosaur named Barney, who was scary and stinky?!!
We left the presentation with smiles on our faces! Later that evening Oscar, Mason and I went down to Desert Book to the book signing. Zachary was not feeling well and Parker could care less (because it wasn't ninja turles). We bought a copy of The Candy Shop Wars to have him sign.
Here is Oscar waiting his turn.
Here is Brandon signing the book and some posters for Oscar and Zachary.
Here are some more of our autographed treasures.
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Brandon was also giving out stickers and bookmarks. The Candy Shop ones are scratch-n-stiff.
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Zachary put his stickers to good use already.
This was such a great experience I will never forget. I hope my boys will always remember too. I learned from the Manager at Desert Book that he tries to get these popular authors to come to Pocatello. I heard him mention Obert Skye, the author of the Leven Thumps books, I'll be watching for that too. Here is a link to the Fablehaven website.
http://www.fablehaven.com/
