“She gained confidence after meeting Courage…”

I was lucky enough to celebrate Penguin Bookshop’s 86th birthday in-store at their Young Writers Series. It was such a fun evening, the local paper covered it!

“Mackenzie Morehouse, a fifth-grader at the Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School in Oakland said she gained confidence after meeting Courage.

‘I had never talked to a real writer before,’ said Mackenzie, 10, of Sewickley Heights. ‘Instead of standing up there and telling us exactly what he wanted to tell us, he made it very interactive.’

‘Although the evening was supposed to be about him, he made it about us and our ideas. It definitely gave me more faith in my writing abilities.’”

Read more here: http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yoursewickley/yoursewickleymore/9387305-74/courage-penguin-bookshop