Join us at The Book Nook for a fun and casual book signing event with David Rickert! Whether you're a fan of comics, curious about illustration, or just love meeting creative folks, this is a great chance to connect with a talented author and artist.
✍️ About the Author
David Rickert has been drawing practically since he could hold a crayon (right around the time he started eating cookies, too). Based in Columbus, Ohio—the fast food capital of the U.S.—David is a comic creator, illustrator, and lifelong book lover. When he’s not making comics, he’s experimenting in the kitchen or playing guitar.
Stop by to meet David, get your books signed, and chat about comics, creativity, and maybe even cookies!
About the books:
Pizza, Pickles, and Apple Pie: The Stories Behind the Foods We Love
How did a pizza become a pizza? Is a pickle really a cucumber in disguise? Explore fascinating food history, nutrition, and American culture through this middle-grade graphic-format nonfiction book for kids that answers oft-asked questions about the foods we love, explaining how they came to be.
Whether it's pizza and pickles or sushi and salad, there's a story behind all of our favorite foods. From breakfast to dinner, this book explores popular foods from our history, and explains their origins. Young readers will travel back in time--sometimes thousands of years--to cultures all over the globe to learn how and why foods were discovered. They'll also meet key people from food history along the way, including the inventor of breakfast cereal and the creator of salad dressing. The science behind unhealthy foods is also explored in this fascinating book, which includes projects and activities for both the classroom and home.
Checkups, Shots, and Robots: True Stories Behind How Doctors Treat Us
Why do I have to get a checkup? My head hurts--make it better! Kids can explore the science and history behind common medical practices and procedures and learn about health problems, treatments, and medical breakthroughs in this funny and educational graphic-format nonfiction book.
Common childhood illnesses and injuries and the methods to cure or treat them can lead to questions. This book offers answers, showing how people learned how to understand and care for the human body, from ancient times to the present day. Young readers will travel back in time--sometimes thousands of years--to cultures all over the globe to learn how and why medical breakthroughs occurred. They'll meet key people from medical history along the way, including early surgeons working without anesthesia and grave robbers seeking knowledge of human anatomy. The science behind antibiotics and how stitches work are two of many topics in this fascinating book, which includes projects and activities for both the classroom and home.
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