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National Book Award Winner to Visit Southdale Library
The 2012 winner for Young Adult's Literature will spend an afternoon with kids later this month.
William Alexander, winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, will appear at Southdale Library on Saturday, Dec. 29 from 2-3 p.m. to discuss his prizewinning novel ““Goblin Secrets” with kids in grades 4-6 who participate in the library’s Fantasy Fan Book Club.
Set in a mysterious world where masks and a theatrical troupe of goblins possess strange powers, after discussing the book with the first time novelist, the kids will make masks of their own.
The National Book Foundation hailed the novel as a “wholly convincing world of mechanized soldiers, chicken-legged grandmothers, sentient rivers, and goblin actors…Alexander’s world is one of possessiveness — and true love — brilliantly revealing our own selves by holding up our masks.”
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While “Goblin Secrets” was Alexander’s first novel, his short stories have previously appeared in numerous publications, and twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
After studying theater and folklore at Oberlin College and English at the University of Vermont, Alexander settled in the Twin Cities, where he currently resides with his family. He teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
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The reading is sponsored by Friends of the Southdale Library. For more information call 612-543-5900.
