SUSAN ORLEAN
Thursday, October 9 at 6 p.m.

Longtime New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean, author of numerous acclaimed nonfiction books (The Orchid Thief, Saturday Night), visits with her first children's book. Illustrated by award-winning book artist G. Brian Karas, Lazy Little Loafers (Abrams) is a delightful mediation (such as the intended audience 'meditates') by an older sister, wondering why in the world babies don't amount to much when it comes to chores and getting things done. It's about all the things babies get away with ... "You don't have to be a genius to realize that babies are just lazy,' complains the peeved, thoroughly cosmopolitan young heroine at the start of Orlean's first children's book, expanded from a 1996 New Yorker "Shouts and Murmurs" piece ... Karas matches the wry text with deadpan cartoons of jaded babies ... One of the wittiest new-baby-in-the-family books of recent years." – Publishers Weekly.

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