CHESTERTOWN — The Bookplate is celebrating the release of the final installment of Swanson & Behr’s popular Cookie Chronicles series with a launch party on Friday, Sept. 5 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the bookstore located at 112 S. Cross St. in downtown Chestertown.
The public is invited; there is no cost.
The book launch coincides with Chestertown’s First Friday festivities.
The seventh volume of Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr’s beloved Cookie Chronicles series, titled “Ben Yokoyama and The Cookie of Destiny,” is the story of 9-year-old Ben’s epic cross-country road trip with his family and best friend Janet.
Ben’s family is moving to California, and Ben and Janet are trying everything in their power to keep it from happening — from finding buried treasure to inventing a time machine to launching a career as pop stars.
In telling the story of Ben’s misbegotten travels in a rickety camper, Swanson and Behr drew on favorite moments from their own epic Busload of Books Tour, in which they and their four children spent a year living in a school bus, visiting Title I schools in all 50 states, and donating programming and books to 25,000 students and teachers from underserved communities in the 2022-23 school year.
“Full of humor, heartbreak, and high-stakes adventure, ‘The Cookie of Destiny’ helps kids come to terms with the challenges of moving and saying goodbye to the places and people they love,” a news release states.
You can learn how the book was made, get your books signed and have a sneak peek of Swanson and Behr’s next book, “Life on the Moon.”
For more event details, call The Bookplate at 410-778-4167 or email contact@thebookplate.net.
