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December 1, 2021
Join us for a conversation with celebrated author and illustrator Peter Sis. An exhibit showing Peter Sis’ works-in-progress will be held simultaneously in Putnam Valley Free Library’s Community Room.
We will talk about Sis' newest book, Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued.
Through Sís’ magnificently detailed and emotional craft, we see two parallel stories: that of of Nicky (Nicholas Winston), a quiet Englishman who, in December 1938, cancelled his vacation to go to Prague, where he ultimately organized the transportation of almost 700 children to safety; and that of Vera Gissing, one of the children Winton saved.
With the exhibit as a background, Peter Sis will talk about his creative process as well.
The recipient of numerous awards, Peter Sis is, among other things, a seven-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year. He has won the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal twice. Among his works are three Caldecott Honor books: The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain; Tibet: Through the Red Box; and Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei. He is the first children’s book illustrator to win the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship and he was chosen to deliver the 2012 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture for the Association for Library Service to Children.
The event is co-sponsored by the Putnam Valley Free Library, the Desmond-Fish Public Library, the Field Library, the Butterfield Memorial Library, the Mahopac Public Library, the Ashland Public Library and the Split Rock bookstore.