Kids Ink Children’s Bookstore - 5619 N. Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - Email: kidsink@indy.net
Store Hours: Monday-Saturday 10am to 6:00pm, Thursdays until 7:00
Store: 317-255-2598 / School and Library Division: 317-254-0830 Fax: 317-254-0832
Poet Helen Frost and photographer Rick Lieder will visit Kids Ink on Thursday, May 4th from 4-5pm.
These nature lovers have collaborated a lot over the years, Rick with captivating photos and Helen with inspiring poetry. Meet them and learn how they've worked together to bring the beauty of nature onto the printed page.
Helen Frost has a prose novel available now called When My Sister Started Kissing, about middle child Claire and her struggles one summer as everything around her changes, most astoundingly her relationship with her older sister Abi.
Kids Ink will have a selection of books by both creators to sell. To have one held for you, give us a call at 317-255-2598!
Here's the breakdown for this national celebration of local booksellers!
Friday, April 28th
4:00—5:00 Cammie McGovern will discuss and sign her newest book, Chester and Gus, about the connection between an autistic boy and a dog.
Saturday, April 29th
10:00—6:00 Random discounts throughout the store! Perhaps you can get the big piece of Playmobil you’ve been wanting.
10:00—6:00 North Central Latin Club will be reading the entire Aeneid in our mock Roman setting.
10:00—6:00 Enter a raffle to win a gift basket! We’re teaming up with Bookmamas and the Indiana Historical Society – the more stores you visit, the bigger the prize!
10:00—12:00 Make a sock puppet and try out the puppet theater.
1:00—3:00 Authors Laura Martin (Edge of Extinction) and Mike Mullin (Ashfall trilogy) will be signing books and helping with a survival workshop. Try your hand at making a compass, filtering water, doing emergency first aid, tying knots, and reading maps. These skills are life-saving in the books of Mullin and Martin. Prizes will be awarded.
Note: We’d originally announced Jim Aylesworth as a guest for April 29th. This was an error, and later marketing included the correct date of April 22nd. If you were expecting to meet him during Independent Bookstore Day, we apologize for the miscommunication. We will have a selection of autographed books of his available.
On Saturday, April 22nd, Jim Aylesworth visits Kids Ink Bookstore from 11am to 1pm.
From the shenanigans of Naughty Little Monkeys to the poignant history in My Grandfather's Coat, Aylesworth's ability to connect to the reader through the page continues to amaze. We're honored he can take the time to visit our store and meet his fans and their families.
We'll have books to sell that customers can get autographed, of course! To have us reserve one for you, just call us at 317-255-2598. We'll see you there!
Dan Gutman, author of the Weird School and Genius Files series as well as multiple sports books, stops by Kids Ink Wednesday, April 12th, from 4-5pm! Say hello, get an autograph, and ring in the new outdoor sports season with someone who knows them like few do!
The prolific writer and creator of children's books covering everything from rambunctious dinosaurs to confident mythological creatures, Bob Shea himself, will visit Kids Ink Bookstore on Thursday, March 23rd, from 4 to 5pm. His book Dinosaur vs. Mommy just came out with a board book edition, perfect for your own little reader!
Kids Ink will have a selection of titles available for purchase. To have one held for you, please call us at 317-255-2598. Hope to see you there!
Come meet the debut YA author Sarah Nicole Lemon and check out her novel Done Dirt Cheap. She will be at Kids Ink on March 14th from 7-8pm.
Some things to know about the author….
- I answer to Lemon.
- I take my coffee any way it comes and my whiskey on ice.
- Sometimes I have a southern accent and sometimes it’s completely Pittsburgh and I can’t hear either.
- My first car was a sky blue 1985 Chevy S10 and it’s in every book I’ve ever written.
- I have a large port-wine birthmark on my face. They say this shows how/where you died in your past life, and getting punched dead in the face for my sass sounds about right.
- I have a genetic mutation called central heterochromia iridium, which just means my eyes have multiple colors in the irises.
Michael Bornstein, one of the youngest documented survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp liberated in 1945, and his daughter Debbie Bornstein-Holinstat have co-authored the memoir Survivor’s Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz. They will appear at Kids Ink Monday, May 1st, from 4-5pm, to discuss the book, answer questions, and autograph copies. The book will be available for purchase at Kids Ink beginning March 7th.
Family is the most important part of any young person’s life, whether by blood or choice or both. Michael and his family depended on each other for strength of body, mind and spirit during the Holocaust. Those memories determined the shape of Michael’s life, and also the life of the family he made for himself.
Mr. Bornstein and his daughter wrote Survivor’s Club for students 10 and up, but older readers can also take away something important from this harrowing story.
We hope you’ll help spread word of this important visit, and that we will see you at Kids Ink on May 1st at four o’clock.
Jan Brett will visit Kids Ink on Thursday, December 1st to read, sign books, and celebrate the release of her latest children’s story, Gingerbread Christmas. Jan will speak at 5pm and sign books after.
We want to make sure all of Brett’s fans will be able to meet her, and so we will be distributing line tickets to better coordinate the event. Each ticket will allow a family to attend the event – parents, children, grandparents, but no pets (sorry!). Line tickets are free with the purchase of a Jan Brett book from Kids Ink, either Gingerbread Christmas or one of her other available titles such as The Mitten or The Twelve Days of Christmas. Guests may also bring one additional book from home.
For more information on the signing itself, or to order a Jan Brett book for the event, please call our store at 317-255-2598.
Kids Ink Bookstore welcomes back Nick Bruel, author and illustrator of the Bad Kitty series! Beginning at 4pm on Monday, October 24th, Nick will be in our store to sign autographs, talk with fans, and prep us all of Halloween with his most recent hardcover, Bad Kitty Scaredy-Cat.
Bad Kitty started as an alphabet book featuring a cartoonish feline that tries to be good, but no matter what she does trouble finds her. That spawned a series of chapter books that continue to captivate readers and dominate bookshelves. Scaredy-Cat flashes back to the disastrous first time Kitty encountered trick-or-treaters, and what she does now to overcome her fears.
Nick Bruel operates as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist (the Bad Kitty series is published by Macmillan Publishing) since his first publication in 2004. In addition to his publication work, he collects PEZ dispensers and enjoys growing produce in his back yard.
The event will be held at Kids Ink, and consist of a short reading followed by author signing. Space will be limited and will be first-come-first-served. We will not be taking reservations, so arrive early to guarantee a spot.
Kids Ink will have copies of Bruel’s books available for purchase. For more information on the signing itself, please call our store at (317) 255-2598.
Every child wants to be great, but the determined girl Gertie Reese Foy needs to be great now, and she's got a plan to do it. Guests can learn all about it on Monday, October 10th, when Kate Beasley - author of Gertie's Leap to Greatness - visits Kids Ink for a reading and signing event from 3pm to 4:15pm.
Gertie's enrolled in fifth grade and living pretty well. She has great friends, a spirited aunt teaching her how to hunt bargains, and her dad works on an oil rig. News that her mother’s moving away and leaving them all behind threatens to tear ger world apart, but Gertie’s got a plan: become the greatest fifth-grader of all time to show Mom how much she would miss if she moved. Too bad the new girl in town, Mary Sue Spivey, wants to impress everyone just as badly, and there’s only room for one at the top.
Kate Beasley earned her Masters in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she focused on Children and Young Adult fiction. Gertie's Leap to Greatness is Beasley's first published novel. Illustrator Jillian Tamaki co-created the 2015 Caldecott-winning This One Summer with her cousin Mariko Tamaki, and drew storyboards for the hit cartoon Adventure Time.
Space will be limited and will be first-come-first-served. We will not be taking reservations, so arrive early to guarantee a spot! Kids Ink will have copies of Gertie’s Guide to Greatness available for purchase. For more information on the signing itself, please call our store at (317) 255-2598. We'll see you Monday from 3-4:15 at
Kids Ink Children’s Bookstore
5619 N. Illinois St.
Indianapolis, IN 46208
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