Children's Author Festival in Eureka

Today was the somewhat annual Children's Author festival at the main library in Eureka. I love to go to this with my kids because I let them pick out a book, and then we find the author and have them get autographs from the authors, and sometimes the illustrators. This year was more cool then others. First of all, a specific author came to the school to talk about her books.  This got Xavier especially excited about these books, and that makes me excited because it is hard to get Xavier into new books. But also because this year, I got a book for myself.  Earlier this year, a friend of mine got me all excited about a new book series. It's for teens/young adults, and therefore not difficult to read. I wasn't sure about the first book, but realized that the author grew with the other books in her series, and that the series itself was very good. The author is Aprilynne Pike and her first book was called "Wings" the second "Spells" and the third, which I have not gotten a chance to read yet, is "Illusions".  Well, she was there! I was only able to purchase "Spells" and got it autographed, but what was great was getting a chance to meet her.  I'm kind of always in awe of authors... people who can come up with such wonderful stories out of their own imaginations!