At the Bookfair 2011

I had a great time at the Book Fair yesterday! The event is always a wonderful opportunity to meet up with old friends in the industry. Yesterday, we got to meet a lot of terrific kids from a school called The Growing Place.

The OMF booth had a storytelling session with Mateo the puppet (who you can spot in the background of the photo) and after that came the book signing.

In the photo (left to right) are Joyce Piap-Go (charming author of Bee Safe), Robert Magnuson (that's me!), Beth Parrocha-Doctolero (brilliant artist of the Oh, Mateo! series of children's books), and Grace Chong (wonderful author of the Oh, Mateo! series) - who is busy signing her latest book Tree for All for an eager child.

2011 Manila International Book Fair

Come to the Book Fair! It's located at SMX, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City. It's from September 14-18, 10am-8pm.

Also, my new book will be launched at the OMF booth (located along aisle D). It's entitled The Great Duck and Crocodile Race. Watch Duck and Crocodile out-do each other at the turn of every page. Who will reach the end of the book first? It's anybody's guess!

I'm well aware you can stand in front of the shelves and read the whole thing through without buying a copy to find out how it ends, but I'm hoping you enjoy the book enough to want to keep a copy on hand whenever you get that familiar urge that comes to us once or twice a day when we just have to see a duck and crocodile race.

I plan to drop by the OMF booth on the 14th and the 16th. I'll have my pen ready for anyone who wants their copy signed. Also on sale will be my other books - What Beetle Can Do and Bullysaurus Rex. Do visit Adarna House at booth 213-215 and ask them for my books - Mister Beetle's Many Rooms and Diego and Marie in A Secret Sense of Home.