Penelope Rex on her back, with her pet saber-tooth tiger sitting on top of her, touching foreheads..
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Special Storytime: Ryan T. Higgins

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Free with Museum admission

Most kids have dogs and cats and fish and guinea pigs. Penelope Rex has Mittens. 

Penelope wasn’t sure she even wanted a pet when Mittens came into her life. But now that he’s here, she is determined to make the best of it. Pets, however—especially ones that are six hundred pounds with six-inch-long teeth—can cause very big, very messy problems.

In this companion to We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, Penelope Rex discovers the challenges and rewards (but mostly challenges) of pet ownership.

Join Ryan T. Higgins for a special storytime reading of Penelope Rex and the Problem with Pets. Guest will also enjoy getting pictures taken with the Penelope Rex costume character, and meeting prospective pets from Western Mass Rabbit Rescue.

Book signing to follow program. Can’t make the event? You may reserve signed books online.

We are grateful to Disney Publishing for their sponsorship of this program.

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Who You'll Meet
Artist Ryan T. Higgins

Ryan T. Higgins

Ryan T. Higgins is the author and illustrator of the New York Times best-selling Mother Bruce, which received the E. B. White Read-Aloud Award and the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Honor. In addition to the Mother Bruce series, Ryan is also the author and illustrator of Norman Didn’t Do It!, We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, We Will Rock Our Classmates, BE QUIET!, and What About Worms!?, an Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! book. He lives in Maine with his wife and kids and a menagerie of pets.

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Western Mass Rabbit Rescue logo of a rabbit.

Western Mass Rabbit Rescue

The Western Mass Rabbit Rescue (WMMR) is a rescue organization and foster network based in Northampton, MA. Local rabbit rescuers Jess Riel, Mike Schilling, and Jordana Starr founded this organization in response to the growing need for a community of rabbit fosterers in Western Massachusetts and a local organization to help support them.

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We Don't Lose Our Class Goldfish

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Penelope Rex and the Problem With Pets