DICAMILLO/LANGEMO: Award-winning Minnesota writer Kate DiCamillo and musician Jimmi Langemo team up for stories, music, inspiration and connection to benefit Joyce Uptown Foodshelf. Tickets required. For information, visit redballoonbookshop.com. 1 p.m. March 1, Judson Memorial Baptist Church, 4101 Harriet Ave., Mpls.
NINA McCONIGLEY: Colorado-based writer introduces her debut novel “How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder,” in conversation with Minnesotan V.V. Ganeshananthan. Free. 2 p.m. Saturday, Plymouth library, 15700 36th Ave. N., Plymouth, in partnership with Valley Bookseller of Stillwater.
SCOTT MESLOW: Presents “A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks.” 7 p.m. Wednesday, Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls.
IMANI PERRY: National Book Award winner of “South to America,” which argues you must understand the South to understand America, and “Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People” discusses her writing in Friends of Hennepin County Library’s Pen Pals series. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. Friday. Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins. $59-$49 in-person, $35 virtual. Call: 612-542-8112.
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Christopher Danielson, St. Paul author and educator, won the national Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute Mathical Book Prize for his picture book “How Did You Count?” for grades K-2. Images were taken by Minneapolis photographer and educator Asha Belk.
In the announcement the Mathical committee writes: “Young readers … are invited to share their thought process — and sometimes whimsical ways — for tallying things up — as they explore colorful photos featuring mathematical groups of everyday objects.”
Danielson, a former teacher at Normandale Community College and in St. Paul public schools, is director of strategic projects at CPM Educational Program. He’s the founder of Math On-a-Stick, an outdoor family math play event that takes place during the Minnesota State Fair. The Mathical prize is awarded in partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in coordination with Children’s Book Council. The winning book also has a companion teachers’ guide.
Attention all Barbara Kingsolver fans (and who isn’t?) Her new novel, “Partita,” releases in October. It’s the story of a gifted woman pianist who finds solace in music after her brother’s death. When she meets a mysterious man her life takes a turn to self-discovery and love.
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