07/26 @ 2pm A Celebration of First Books @ Big Blue Marble

A Celebration of First Books with authors Maya Anderson and Amelia Robin Chaplin-Loebell

Big Blue Marble Bookstore

Sunday July 26
2:00 pm

Join us to celebrate first books by local author/illustrators Maya Anderson (14) and Amelia Robin Chaplin-Loebell (12). Here in Mt. Airy we start our great artists young!


Author Maya Anderson is fourteen years old. She is a School District of Philadelphia student and will be attending Hill-Freedman World Academy in the fall for 9th grade. She has been drawing and writing original stories since 4th grade and decided that she wanted to publish this new series. She is obsessed with creating new characters (realistic anime) and is very excited about sharing them with the public.

“I like to draw what I am imagining because it helps me to see what the story is showing me.”

Maya is also turning her creativity into support for teachers and kids in Philadelphia schools. Teachers can visit her Facebook page to specify what supplies they need, and depending on the funds available from selling the book, Maya will provide a gift card so they can buy the supplies.

“I’m also publishing this book to support art after the budget cuts. It cut my art teacher at Lingelbach and others,” she said. “I really love art. If it wasn’t for art, I wouldn’t have made ‘Claws.’”

Amelia Robin Chaplin-Loebell has been writing and illustrating stories and comics since she was old enough to wrap her tiny fist around a pencil. Written as part of the Young Writers Program during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 2014, The Astounding Retrieval of Clementine is her first novel, which she wrote at age 11. She lives in Philadelphia with her sister, her parents, and a plethora of feline companions.