Loren Long

Illustrator Loren Long discusses and signs President Obama's Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters, a tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation.

Illustrator Loren Long discusses and signs President Obama's Of Thee I Sing, a tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation.

Main Street Books is proud to offer story time for children every Sunday. Throughout October we will be reading halloween and harvest books and enjoying an activity geared toward the season. As always, the event is free and it is a great way for mom's and dad's to get together and meet new people and ... (more)visit.

FAMILY FUN
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. “CURE THOSE BACK-TO-SCHOOL BLUES” with FREE demonstrations and entertainment, arts, crafts, music, education, childcare information, nutrition, family resources, shopping, vacations and so much more! $5 per family to participate in the “Mall Scavenger Hunt to ... (more)Win Great Prizes” with proceeds going to South Shore Natural Science Center. Storytimes (with book reading and craft for ages 2-5) at Storybook Cove at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Special offers/sales at many of the stores in Merchants Row -- At Storybook Cove we'll give $1 cash for every $10 you spend in the store (excluding gift cards, sale items).
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Author and illustrator extraodanaire Loren Long is coming to Wild Rumpus, and we are honored to say the least. His artwork has graced the pages of many bestselling books including THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD and TOY BOAT. Now he's written and illustrated the adorable OTIS, about a tractor and a calf ... (more)who are best buddies. And if we're lucky, a real life baby calf and a tractor will show up at the event. (Calves and tractors are both tempermental, so we can't make any promises.)

This perfect holiday book from nationally acclaimed illustrator and JBB favorite Loren Long will surely become another distinctive Christmas classic. Accidentally parted from his loving child owner, a toy drummer boy embarks on a series of perilous adventures. He is menaced by rats in the city dump and ... (more)owls in an aerie, marooned atop a bell tower, and impaled on a snowy thorn bush. Throughout, he plays his drum, soothing the hearts of all who hear him. Finally, a raccoon drops him in a cemetery, where, miraculously, he is reunited with his owner. Back at home, the child places the little drummer boy among the figures in the family's nativity scene, where he plays for the Christ child.