2015-present

2023-2024 Author/Illustrator Visits

Ana Matsusaki

Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Katherine Marsh

Toto Kisaku

Kristen Gudsnuk

Adam Gidwitz

Mathew Holm

Christopher Meyers

David Shannon

George O’Connor

Nani Brunini

Alyson Gerber

2023-2024 Library Events

Panel: Multilingual Minds & Learning Differences

Summer Book Bingo (grades 2-8, faculty, staff, and caregivers)

Common Read (Faculty and Staff)

Multicultural Book Club (4)

Graphic Lives: A Conversation about Drawing Identities

2022-2023 Author/Illustrator Visits

Rodrigo Morlesin 

Ana Aranda

Tae Won Yu

Ruth Chan 

Paola Mendoza

Nana Brew-Hammond

Emma Straub

Karina Yan Glaser 

Yvette Clark 

Gibson Frazier

2022-2023 Library Events

World Languages Used Book Sale

Project Cicero Book Drive & Books Through Bars Book Drive

Student Book Club: Falling Short

Multicultural Book Clubs (4)

Community Panel on Artificial Intelligence

Common Read (Faculty and Staff)

2021-2022 Author/Illustrator Visits

Sandra Rivera Sánchez

Hyewon Yum

Emma Otheguy

Safia Elhillo

Gaël Aymon 

Sarah Williamson

Lara Vallance

Sarah Moon 

K-Fai Steele

Andrés Sandoval

Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith

2022-2023 Library Events

Panel Discussion: Translation is an Art

Project Cicero Book Drive & Books Through Bars Book Drive

Book Bingo

Student Book Club: Zenobia July

Multicultural Book Clubs (4)

Common Read (Faculty and Staff)

2021 -2022 Author/Illustrator Visits

Jacob Kramer and K-Fai Steele

Peter Wohlleben

Raphael Simon

Jeff Kinney

Pamela Druckerman

Christine Kendall 

Marguerite Abouet 

Emma Otheguy

John Cusick

Karina Yan Glaser 

Mariana Llanos

2021 -22 Library Events

Dr. Debbie Reese (2 events)

Panel Discussion: ‘The Talk’ with Wade and Cheryl Hudson, Tracey Baptiste, and Torrey Maldonado

Student Book Club: King and the Dragonflies

Multicultural Book Clubs (4)

Common Read (Faculty and Staff)

2020 -2021 Author/Illustrator Visits

Emma Giuliani 

Emma Otheguy

Jordan Scott 

Ingrid Godon 

Ana Aranda

2020 -2021 Library Events

Antonio Rocha 

Mystery Reader Series (5)

Multicultural Book Clubs (4)

Parent workshop: What Parents Need to Know About Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Supporting LGBTQ+ Kids with Ellen Friedrichs

Common Read (Faculty and Staff)

2019 – 2020 Author/Illustrator Visits

Carolyn Mackler

Chen Jiang Hong 

Cynthia Alonso 

Kyle Lukoff 

Scholastique Mukasonga

Susan Robeson

2019 – 2020 Library Events

Speculative Fiction Workshop with Diana Nucera

“Whachu’ Know About Data?” Workshop (from Our Data Bodies

Student Book Club: Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani

Project Cicero Book Drive & Books Through Bars Book Drive

Mosaic Design Contest & Project

Multilingual Book Fair

Multicultural Book Clubs (4)

Heroes, Gods & Quests: An ISB Odyssey

Parent Workshop: Ellen Friedrichs

Common Read (Faculty and Staff)

2018 – 2019  Author/Illustrator Visits

Bryan Collier

Violeta Lópiz and Valerio Vidali

Michael Hearst

Jorge Luján

Marc Boutavant

Gabrielle Balkan

Matteo Farinella

2018 – 2019 Library Events

Zine Mania! Workshops with Alison Wilgus, Aatmaja Pandya, Elisa Hevia & Hermann Mejia, Christina Long

Project Cicero Book Drive & Books Through Bars Book Drive

Heroes, Gods & Quests: An ISB Odyssey

Multilingual Book Fair

Evening with Violaine Huisman and Jeffrey Zeigler

Multicultural Book Clubs (4)

Parent Workshop: Parenting in the Digital Age with Jessica Millstone

Parent Workshop: What Parents Need to Know About Kids and Sex (and the tools to talk about it!) with Ellen Friedrichs

Common Read (Faculty and Staff)

2017 – 2018 Author/Illustrator Visits

Emma Otheguy

David J. Smith

Jacques Goldstyn

Omar Berrada and Sarah Riggs

2017 – 2018 Library Events

Drag Queen Story Hour

Zine Mania! Workshops with Leigh Hurwitz, Sara Varon, Eliseo Rivera, Ayde Rayas, Esther K. Smith, Elvis Bakaitis

Multicultural Book Clubs (4)

Project Cicero Book Drive & Books Through Bars Book Drive

Multilingual Book Fair

Movie & Discussion: Screenagers

​​Parent Talk: Healthy Homework Skills Through the Lens of a Growth Mindset

2016 – 2017 Author/Illustrator Visits

Herve Tullet workshop at ISB 

Sandrine Revel with Hanyi Meng

2016 – 2017 Library Events

Workshop: We Need Diverse Books: The Importance of Equal Representation in Children’s Books and panel discussion with Selina Alko, Sean Qualls & Jill Eisenberg from Lee & Low Books

Parent Workshop: Strategies for Supporting Reading in Multiple Languages at Home

Parent Workshop: Using Books as Tools to Talk about Sensitive Topics

Parent Workshop: Resources for Parenting in the Digital Age

2015 – 2016  Author/Illustrator Visits

Magali Le Huche

Beatrice Alemagna

Adam Gidwitz

2014 – 2015  Author/Illustrator Visits

George O’Connor

Mitali Perkins

Joseph Phillip Illidge