Northampton’s Forbes Library will host Mass Book Award-winning author Mary Wagley Copp on May 8 at 4pm! Mary will read from her picture book Yoshi’s Big Swim, an awe-inspiring story about a turtle who swam more than 22,000 miles to her true home–the longest journey of any animal ever tracked.

Following the storytime, kids will learn more about sea turtles like Yoshi and participate in a turtle celebration! Environmental educators from the Hitchcock Center for the Environment will be on site and attendees will have the opportunity to meet a real-life turtle and better understand these incredible creatures.

Books will be available for purchase and signing from The Odyssey Bookshop.

​​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/.

Mary Wagley Copp is the award-winning author of Wherever I Go, Sometimes We Pray (forthcoming), and Yoshi’s Big Swim. Her professional life has also included community organizing in Appalachia, teaching in Ecuador, and being executive director of two nonprofit organizations. When she’s not writing, Mary teaches ESL to newcomers in her community. She graduated from Smith College and earned an MPH from UNC-Chapel Hill and lives in Westport, Massachusetts with her husband, their rescue pup, many chickens and so many bees! They have three grown children.