Book Character Meet & Greet

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Bring your camera and snap a picture with Frog & Toad, Clifford, Mercy Watson, and Penelope Rex!

Sing-a-Long

FilmScene at The Chauncey 404 E College St, Iowa City, IA

Join the Iowa Children's Museum for a family fun sing-a-long!

Author Talk with Jen Ferguson

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Métis with ancestral ties to the Red River (on her father's side) and Canadian settler (on her mother's side), an activist, a feminist, an auntie, and an accomplice armed with a PhD in English and Creative Writing. Jen believes writing, teaching and beading are political acts. She is represented by Patricia Nelson at Marsal Lyon

I Quit! with Jean Herring – Cancelled

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  Unfortunately this event is cancelled due to illness. Please check out I Quit! at you local library or bookstore.  Have you ever quit something? Parents, educators, and coaches often emphasize the importance of motivation, perseverance and determination, but rarely acknowledge the importance of quitting, and how it goes hand in hand with life satisfaction

The Little Old Lady and the Riceballs with Monica Leo

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The Little Old Lady and the Riceballs, a Japanese tale told with puppets, followed by a short discussion of the history of Eulenspiegel as told in Monica Leo's new book, Hand, Shadow, Rod. from Ice Cube Press. Since 1974, Eulenspiegel has toured in thirty-one states and four countries around the world. All along establishing and maintaining an

Book Fair at One Book Two Book

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At FilmScene at The Chauncey Join us for a celebration of children's literature and writing! Books, author readings, writing workshops, film screenings, crafts, costume characters, and more! Featured Guests: Covenant Family Solutions, Iowa City Public Library, Coralville Public Library, Iowa Youth Writing Project, North Liberty Library, PaperPie, Sidekick Coffee & Books, The Book End, The

Free Flicks: Rabbitson Crusoe and Rabbit of Seville

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FilmsScene presents free screenings of classic Looney Tunes shorts, Rabbitson Crusoe and Rabbit of Seville. The films run on a loop all morning.

Anna Karenina starring Greta Garbo, Basil Rathbone, and Fredric March

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This 19th-century period piece is an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel. On a trip to St. Petersburg, Anna Karenina (Greta Garbo), neglected wife of the famed Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin (Basil Rathbone), meets a handsome military officer, Count Vronsky (Fredric March). Vronsky becomes enamored of Anna and follows her back to Moscow to confess his

Author and Illustrator Michelle Edwards

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Michelle Edwards is the author and illustrator of many books for children, one book for adults, and nearly one hundred essays and cards for knitters. In her spare time, she enjoys talking about her books, writing, illustrating, and on occasion, knitting, in schools and community venues throughout the US and beyond. Michelle will join us

Book Fair

FilmScene at The Chauncey 404 E College St, Iowa City, IA

At FilmScene at The Chauncey Join us for a celebration of children's literature and writing! Books, author readings, writing workshops, film screenings, crafts, costume characters, and more! Featured Guests: Iowa City Public Library, Coralville Public Library, Iowa Youth Writing Project, North Liberty Library, PaperPie, Scattergood Friends School, Sidekick Coffee & Books,  Sylvan Learning Center of

The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales

FilmScene at The Chauncey 404 E College St, Iowa City, IA

Free screenings from 10 a.m. - noon.  The countryside isn’t always as calm and peaceful as it’s made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly agitated: a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus. If you