Children’s Book Week 2024

November 4–10, 2024 

Joan Y. Leopold Children’s Book Week
with Heather Fox and Jonathan Stutzman  

Author Jonathan Stutzman and illustrator Heather Fox will read aloud from their book Butts Are Everywhere and engage with families and children. Each family will receive a signed copy of Butts Are Everywhere. Attendees can have their books personalized after the event.   

About the Artists 

Heather Fox (adoodlefox.com) and Jonathan Stutzman (jonathanstutzman.com) are an award winning, best-selling author and illustrator duo of children’s stories. Together they’ve created books that include the Llama Destroys the World trilogy (Macmillan), Don’t Feed the Coos! (Macmillan), the Fitz and Cleo series (Macmillan), Butts are Everywhere (Penguin) and several other books for young readers. Jonathan is also the author of the Tiny T. rex series (Chronicle), Bear is a Bear (HarperCollins), and many more! Their books have been translated in over a dozen languages around the world and have appeared on the Indie Next List and Indie Bestseller list. They have also received several state book awards as well as the NAIBA Book of the Year (2019) and a Junior Library Guild award (2020). They are married and live in Lititz, Pennsylvania with their French bulldog, Hugo.  

About the book 

From School Library Journal 

PreS-Gr 2—Kids love a little butt talk, and they get it in this title that takes on the universality of the bottom across nature. Stutzman describes butts, lists their colloquial monikers as well as scientific names, and goes on to assure us that all creatures have them. This is not entirely accurate, and educators may have a moment of cognitive dissonance trying to reconcile the idea of a “hindquarters” on a jellyfish or crab; they may be put off by a parallel between a butt and a “tooter” (the technical term for the end of a digestive tract). The target audience will likely not see this as a problem. Fox’s childlike drawings are a good complement to Stutzman’s narrative.  

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Register for the event 

Alexander Family Library: Friday, November 8 at 11:00 am  Register >

Elizabethville Area Library: Friday, November 8 at 4:00 pm  Register >

East Shore Area Library: Saturday, November 9 at 1:00 pm Register >

About Joan Y. Leopold and the Joan Y. Leopold Book Week Celebration 

This Children’s Book Week Celebration is made possible by the Joan Y. Leopold Endowment Fund. Joan Y. Leopold, a lifelong resident of Dauphin County, served as a board member of the Dauphin County Library System for more than 20 years. A tireless advocate for both child and adult literacy, her belief that reading opens a world of education and imagination lives on in her family, students and all those she touched through her efforts.

This Children’s Book Week Celebration is made possible by the Joan Y. Leopold Endowment Fund. Joan Y. Leopold, a lifelong resident of Dauphin County, served as a board member of the Dauphin County Library System for more than 20 years. A tireless advocate for both child and adult literacy, her belief that reading opens a world of education and imagination lives on in her family, students and all those she touched through her efforts.