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CDC health officials are recommending that all gatherings be cancelled due to COVID-19 through May 9th. The wellbeing of our community is our top priority so we are following that recommendation.

A new book by Elisa Kleven, one of our favorite picture book author illustrators, is a cause for celebration. And we will be celebrating when she visits Kepler’s on April 7th to introduce us to Hiro’s Hats, a gently whimsical yarn about an imaginative little snow monkey that sees “a hat one day, flying like a bright bird through the sky”

High in the mountains of Japan, Hiro, a little snow monkey, finds a beautiful hat. "Snow monkeys don't need hats!" his brother tells him. But Hiro's hat does more than keep him warm -- it is also a friend. Only a robin understands. And when Hiro's hat disappears, she surprises him, in time, with two more hats, each as playful and full of life as his first. .

“Through Hiro, Kleven sympathetically illustrates young children’s ability to find emotional connections to inanimate objects, and the creative ways they can respond to stress." --Publishers Weekly

Elisa is the author and/or illustrator of over thirty books including Sun Bread, The Paper Princess, Glasswings, The Lion and the Little Red Bird, The Horribly Hungry Gingerbread Boy, and Hiro’s Hats. Her books have received many honors, including a New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award for Sun Bread, and have been included in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. A piece of art from Hiro’s Hats is currently on display at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.

Join us and celebrate the joy of a new arrival by a longtime favorite author.