Calling all kids!  Grab some paper and something to draw with!  

Join us for a reading and drawing lesson with cartoonist James Kochalka to celebrate the release of his new book for young readers!  

From Eisner Award-winning cartoonist James Kochalka comes an uproariously funny new series. Banana Fox is on the case! Can Banana Fox and his sidekick, Flashlight, put an end to the Secret Sour Society once and for all?

Wowie pow!

The great detective Banana Fox is called back to duty to find a missing turtle. But the deeper he digs, the more he discovers, and it's worse than he thought! The Secret Sour Society is back, and they're mixing up a bunch of trouble. 

Phoenix Books is thrilled to welcome Tessa Wegert to our Zoom channel for a discussion of her new mystery novel, The Dead Season. Tessa will be in conversation with fellow mystery author, Sarah Stewart Taylor.

About The Dead Season: 

In order to solve one mystery, Shana must wade into her murky past to unravel another.

After leaving the NYPD following her abduction by serial killer Blake Bram, Shana Merchant hoped for a fresh start in the Thousand Islands of Upstate New York. Her former tormentor has other plans...

A boy learns that nature is full of stories to tell when he finds and follows a mouse's tracks in a wintery wood.

Milo wants a story, but his mom is too busy to entertain him. Instead, she encourages him to go out and play in the snow. At first, Milo is disappointed - he doesn't want to play outside, he wants a story. 

But when he starts to follow a trail of mouse-prints, he discovers signs of activity all around, prompting him to ask, "What happened here?" Before long, he's using his imagination -- depicted in lush wordless spreads that capture the vividness of Milo's fantasies -- to fill in the gaps. By the time Milo comes home, he's the one with stories to tell.

Phoenix Books welcomes photographer Kevin Bubriski to our Zoom Channel for a discussion of his latest book, Our Voices, Our Streets:  American Protests 2001-2011.

ABOUT THE BOOK:  The American street has always been the ultimate public venue for political and cultural expression. This collection of images by Kevin Bubriski covers a decade of American street protest that began on January 20, 2001 with the inauguration of George W. Bush and ended with Occupy Wall Street in October of 2011.

The crowds in the street at the 2001 inauguration made it clear America was at a difficult and defining moment after a contentious election. Following the inauguration of 2001 and the...