Alana Tyson will visit the store on Monday, January 16th to present and sign her new picture book, My Red, White, and Blue. She will speak at 10:30 AM and again at 1:30 PM.

With engaging, lyrical text, and striking, breathtaking art from ALA Carnegie Medal of Excellence winner London Ladd, My Red, White, and Blue  is a powerful story about the mixture of pride and pain that one Black family finds in the American flag, and an invitation for each of us to choose how we relate to America, its history, and the flag that means so many things to so many people.

Alana Tyson received her bachelor of science degree from Brooklyn College and her master of arts degree from the University of Maryland. After working in journalism for a short while, she began a career in national security and began to pursue a more creative path as a writer. A winner of the Lee & Low New Voices Award, she lives in Virginia with her family. You can visit Alana online at booksbyalana.com or follow her on Twitter @alanatys and on Instagram @alanathewriter.