Watch At Home: Graphic Novels are Life! Telling Your Own Story in a Graphic Novel with Dan Santat

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Join this year’s winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Dan Santat, as he inspires tweens and teens to tell their own stories through graphic novels. His winning book, A First Time for Everything, is a graphic memoir based on his own awkward middle school years and the trip to Europe that changed his life.

Dan Santat began drawing as a young boy and although he first studied microbiology, he pursued his passion in illustration. He spent many hours as a child and teenager teaching himself to draw by copying illustrations from comic books until he developed the unique, recognizable style that we see today. His talk will inspire listeners to draw their own story as well as give them practical tips on the creation of graphic novels.

If you would like to watch the virtual author talk on your own at home, please register using the link on this page!

If you would like to join us at the library to watch the virtual author talk as a group and make a craft afterward, please register at this link instead.