We’re so excited to have local author and illustrator Holly Myers with us to read from her children’s book: Goodnight Asheville. This is a beautiful picture book filled with bright illustrations of our city’s favorite attractions, museums, historial landmarks, and other points of interest. There is even a key in the back to learn a bit more about each of these places if you want to take a deeper dive. This is one of our favorite local books and we can’t wait to celebrate with Holly!

A captivating picture book biography of a boy who imagined a world full of dragons and grew up to be beloved author J. R. R. Tolkien.

John Ronald loved dragons. He liked to imagine dragons when he was alone, and with his friends, and especially when life got hard or sad. After his mother died and he had to live with a cold-hearted aunt, he looked for dragons. He searched for them at his boarding school. And when he fought in a Great War, he felt as if terrible, destructive dragons were everywhere. But he never actually found one, until one day, when he was a grown man but still very much a boy at heart, when he decided to create one of his own. John Ronald’s Dragons, a picture book biography by Caroline McAlister and illustrated by Eliza Wheeler, introduces the beloved creator of Middle Earth and author of The Hobbit to a new generation of children who see magic in the world around them.