Join award-winning children’s author Corinne Demas at North Adams Public Library on Thursday, May 8 for a storytime program! She’ll be reading her new book, Once There Was, which is a magical, modern fairy tale about transformation, dreaming about being someone or something else, and the interconnectedness of the natural world.

In this simple yet vibrant book, a girl dreams she is a princess. A princess dreams she is a horse. A horse dreams she is a tree, a tree a mountain, a mountain a moon, a moon a sea, a sea a girl. Once There Was shows how important it is to dream and to reach for the stars and the moon! This storytime will be paired with an activity to celebrate the turning of the seasons.

​​This Mass Kids Lit Fest event is presented in partnership with the Massachusetts Center for the Book. For a full schedule, please visit https://www.makidslitfest.org/.

Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-eight books for children and adults. Her numerous picture books include The Perfect Tree, Saying Goodbye to Lulu, The Littlest Matryoshka, The Disappearing Island, and, most recently, Once There Was. She is the co-author, with Artemis Roehrig, of The Grumpy Pirate, Are Pirates Polite?, Do Doodlebugs Doodle? Amazing Insect Facts, Does a Fiddler Crab Fiddle?, and Do Jellyfish Like Peanut Butter? Amazing Sea Creature Facts. Her books for adults include her new novel, The Road Towards Home, and a memoir, Eleven Stories High, Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town. She is a professor Emerita of English at Mount Holyoke College and lives in Western Massachusetts and on Cape Cod. www.corinnedemas.com