That's right, Hester Bass is swinging through Oxford to sign some books and will be our guest storytime teller. She will read and perhaps perform from her Orbis Pictus Award winning picture book The Secret World of Walter Anderson. Wednesday, April 21st at 10 a.m.

THE SECRET WORLD OF WALTER ANDERSON illustrated by E.B. Lewis from Candlewick Press WINNER of the 2010 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children - 2010 NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People - CCBC Choices 2010: Best-of-the-Year List compiled by Cooperative Children's Book Center - Kirkus: Best Children's Books of 2009 and Starred Review - Southern Independent Bookstore Bestseller, SIBA "Okra Pick" and nominee for SIBA Book Award - Represented Mississippi at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

"True art consists of spreading wide the intervals so that imagination may fill the space between the trees." - Walter Inglis Anderson