Join us for our annual kids holiday party! Pose for a glamour shot with Santa and listen to some holiday themed readings by Oliver Jeffers (Stuck), Masha D'yans (Razzle Dazzle Ruby), and Emily Jenkins (Toys Come Home).

About Razzle-Dazzle Ruby:

Award-winning artist Masha D'yans makes her picture book debut with the delightful Ruby in beautiful and interactive spreads that sparkle, spin, pop, and whirly-twirl, inviting readers to join in Ruby's razzle-dazzle fun.

Ruby can make the ordinary extraordinary! Come skate on a shimmering pond, roll a giant snowball, sled down a snowy hill, and create soaring snow angels with her as she becomes a snow queen and transforms a typical winter day into a gleaming-beaming fairy tale.

Combining glorious watercolors, elegant paper engineering, and whimsical storytelling, this joyful novelty picture book is sure to enchant children and adults.

Masha D'yans is an award-winning artist. Her line of greeting cards, clothing, and home décor featuring her alluring artwork is sold at Target, Urban Outfitters, and Nordstrom, as well as other major retailers and smaller specialty shops. Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, and classically trained at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art Lyceum and subsequently at Cooper Union in New York City, she now lives and works in Manhattan. Visit her online at www.masha.com. Razzle-Dazzle Ruby is her first book.

About Stuck:

Acclaimed artist and storyteller Oliver Jeffers delivers another delightful gem with Stuck, an adorable picture book about a boy who comes across a bit of trouble when he gets his kite stuck in a tree. Oliver Jeffers is an international superstar – he was the recipient of the 2006 Nestlé: Gold Medal, the highest honor for children's books in his native UK, the 2007 Children's Book of the Year presented by the Irish Book Awards, and he has twice been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal.

In Stuck, the trouble really began when Floyd threw a shoe up to knock the kite loose, and that got stuck too, followed by...a ladder, a bucket of paint, the kitchen sink, an orangutan and a whale who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. But everything Floyd tosses up just becomes stuck! If only he could think of an idea to sort this out once and for all...

Stuck is a beautifully illustrated laugh-out-loud story of determination and inventiveness from worldwide picture book sensation Oliver Jeffers.

Oliver Jeffers (www.oliverjeffers.com) makes art and tells stories. His previous picture books, How to Catch a Star, Lost and Found—which was made into an animated film—The Way Back Home, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, The Great Paper Caper and The Heart and the Bottle have won many awards including the Nestlé: Children's Book Prize Gold Award, the Blue Peter Book of the Year and the Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, and he has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. The Heart and the Bottle has been made into a highly-acclaimed iPad application. Originally from Belfast, Oliver now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

About Toys Come Home:

Fans of acclaimed author Emily Jenkins's and Caldecott Award winner Paul O. Zelinsky's bestselling and award-winning Toys trilogy are in for a treat with the release of Toys Come Home: Being the Early Experiences of an Intelligent Stingray, a Brave Buffalo, and a Brand-New Someone Called Plastic. In this utterly charming prequel, readers will happily discover how Lumphy, StingRay, and Plastic came to live with the Girl.

Perfect for read-alone or read-aloud, Toys Come Home boasts six charming, funny, and completely irresistible interwoven stories that reveal the close bonds of three brave and loving toys. The stories reveal how the one-eared Sheep became one-eared; why StingRay is afraid of the basement; a cranky toy meeting an unfortunate end; and-at last-readers will discover how StingRay, Lumphy, and Plastic came to live with the Little Girl. Best of all, children will learn why it's okay for someone you truly love to puke on you!

As they did in Toys Go Out (2006) and Toy Dance Party (2008), StingRay, Lumphy, and Plastic are sure to capture the hearts of readers young and old in Toys Come Home.

Emily Jenkins is the author of Toys Go Out, an ALA Notable Book, and Toy Dance Party, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2008. Her other books include Sugar Would Not Eat It and the ALA Notable Book Five Creatures. Visit her online here.