Today was the Book Launch Party for PENGUIN CHA-CHA at my local Barnes & Noble. What a toe-tapping, knee-knocking, rocking good time!
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| My dashing penguin companion made sure all was ready. |
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| A wonderful local bakery, Fresh Baked by Tracy, made the cakes with my illustrations on them. |
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| The cakes turned out adorable. |
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| The books were set up and ready for readers. |
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| I signed my first Penguin Cha-Cha book. Yay! |
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| The line formed. |
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| The stand-up cut-outs made by www.signsoveramerica.com were a hit. |
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| Turn yourself into a dancing penguin! |
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| I read the book to the kids. |
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| We learned the basic cha-cha-cha step. |
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| Then we learned how to hold our hands to make them into pretty Latin dancing hands. |
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| Put the steps and arm motions together to cha-cha! |
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| A sweet group of friends. |
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| A darling dancer. |
Thank you to all who came and helped my penguins to dance into the hands of readers! And thank you to SCBWI for the marketing grant that made this super fun book launch possible!
5 comments:
Looks like you had some very happy customers...love the cover of your book and I love to cha cha... :)
Looks like the kids had lots of fun. Congrats on a successful launch party!
Love your stand-up penguins, stuffed penguin and cakes! Do you have a matching scarf as well? Did your pub'r help with these?
Thanks, Catherine, Jennifer, and Kayleen!
Kayleen, yep, my scarf has penguins on it too. I bought it from Etsy. My husband's sign company, www.signsoveramerica.com, made the stand-up cut-outs. My mom made the stuffed penguin for me. And my friend's bakery, www.freshbakedbytracy.com, made the cakes. I had won a marketing grant from www.scbiw.org to help with it all. It was a fabulous time!
What a fantastic book launch! Congratulations, Kristi!
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