The Klaus Flugge salons are a new initiative from Andersen Press to celebrate their founder and chairman Klaus Flugge’s 90th birthday and welcome people to their new offices in Bloomsbury.
This July, we are thrilled to announce a discussion with New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander!
This event will focus on the second epic novel of the bestselling The Door of No Return trilogy, Black Star, and is an exclusive opportunity to hear from Kwame Alexander as he discusses themes of sport, history, family sagas, and self-discovery in children’s fiction and verse novels.
These events are open to anyone who wants to meet others in the publishing industry, enjoy a glass of wine and listen to an author or illustrator talking about their work. They are a celebration of all that is good about the world of children’s publishing today and an opportunity to make new friends, learn about new books and discuss ideas without the toxicity of social media.
Limited to 45 tickets, the event costs £8 and ticket price includes a signed copy of Black Star by Kwame Alexander, as well as refreshments.
Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and can be purchased here.
All are welcome, old friends and new.
If you have any access requirements, please email AndersenPublicity@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk
About Black Star by Kwame Alexander
‘Supremely satisfying and zings with confidence’ – The Times, Children’s Book of the Week
‘Following on from The Door of No Return (though it can also be read as a standalone), this superb 12+ verse novel demonstrates all Alexander’s characteristic power to move, shock and transport’ – Guardian
Set during the turbulent segregation era, Kwame Alexander weaves a spellbinding story of struggle, determination and the unflappable faith of an American family.
Twelve-year old Charley is set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional baseball, even if that’s a lofty dream for a Black girl in the American South in the 1920s. Even so, her grandfather Kofi’s thrilling stories about courageous ancestors and epic journeys make it impossible not to dream big. She knows he has so much more to tell, but according to her parents, she isn’t old enough to know about certain things, like what happened to Booker Preston that one night in Great Bridge, and why she can never play on the brand-new baseball field on the other side of town.
When Charley challenges a neighbourhood bully to a game at the church picnic, she knows she can win, even with her ragtag team. Then a dispute on the field leads to Charley making a fateful decision, one that will bring consequences she never could have imagined.
About The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
The #1 New York Times bestseller
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Writing
‘At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting’ Lupita Nyong’o
Dreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions.
Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, West Africa, where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father’s father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. But when the unthinkable – a sudden death – occurs during a festival between rival villages, Kofi ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. Yet Kofi’s dreams may be the key to his freedom…
About Kwame Alexander
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Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books, including Rebound, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, The Crossover, winner of the Newbery Medal, and The Undefeated, winner of the Caldecott Medal. Kwame is also the recipient of several other awards, including the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award and the Coretta Scott King Author Honour. He is the writer and executive producer of The Crossover TV series, which won a Daytime Emmy Award, and is co-founder of LEAP for Ghana, an international literacy programme.
