Children's Author Devin Elle Kurtz Presents: The Bakery Dragon and the Giant Cookie
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Children's Author Devin Elle Kurtz Presents: The Bakery Dragon and the Giant Cookie

📆Tue, Oct 6 · 4:15 PM
📍New Canaan Library · 151 Main Street, New Canaan, CT 06840 Get directions ↗
🏷Free

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Join us to celebrate the launch of The Bakery Dragon and the Giant Cookie with author Devin Elle Kurtz! Get a sneak preview of the book, learn about Devin Elle Kurtz's creative process, and ask questions. A book signing will follow. Elm Street Books will be onsite selling books. Preorder books here. We will distribute signing line wristbands to adults at event check-in the day of the event. Please register each person who will attend (adults as well as children). DEVIN ELLE KURTZ is the bestselling creator of The Bakery Dragon. She’s been painting in Photoshop since the age of two, when her artist mom first offered her a tablet pen. Her magical scenes combine fantasy elements with environments that feel visceral and real. She was the lead background painter on the animated show Disenchantment and has contributed to publications such as Beasts of the Four Nations, Escape from Atlantis, How to Heal a Gryphon, and Mother of Sharks. She lives in Pasadena with her dog, Kira, and thirty-three houseplants.

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