Author and actor Sonia Manzano, popularly known for her role as “Maria” on Sesame Street, will be stopping by the Hue-Man Bookstore in Harlem, NY July 14. Her new children’s book A Box Full of Kittens, recently published by Atheneum June 2007, follows up her debut book No Dogs Allowed.
A Box Full of Kittens centers around a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Bronx during the 1950s. Ruthie, a young girl who dreams about being Superman, is asked to go spend the afternoon with her aunt. Ruthie seizes the opportunity to help her aunt who is about to have a baby any day day now and may need some help.
It could be her chance to be a hero, should the baby come while she’s visiting! But when Ruthie is out fetching a snack for her aunt, she gets so distracted by a box full of kittens in the bodega that she doesn’t hear her aunt calling for her, nor does she notice the policemen running to the apartment or the ambulance pulling to the curb. When she realizes what’s happened, she’s devastated — she’s missed her one chance to be a hero! Or has she?
Sonia Manzano will appear at Harlem’s Hue-Man Bookstore, located at 2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd, on Saturday July 14 from 2-4pm.
