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Michelle Knudsen Author Visit

Thu, November 20, 2025 1:45 P.M. Add to your calendar
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE

Join us for an exciting visit from New York Times best-selling author, Michelle Knudsen!

Michelle Knudsen is the New York Times best-selling author of more than fifty books for young readers of all ages, including the award-winning picture book Library Lion (one of Time magazine's 100 Best Children's Books of All Time). Her novels include The Dragon of Trelian (VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers) and Evil Librarian (YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults; Sid Fleischman Humor Award). The middle grade fantasy novel INTO THE WILD MAGIC, was released in August 2025. Michelle also sometimes writes speculative short fiction for older readers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with three humans, two cats, and one snake.

There will a selected number of books to give away.

This event will take place in the Montgomery Auditorium.

 

The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees.
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Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-567-4341

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