If you're in/near NYC

This Tuesday 11/22/11 Reading in NYC with contributors Jen Silverman and Ayun Halliday.
This is not a Short Bus event, but we'll both be at this reading for the Museum of Motherhood!

Queens, NY - Free April Event!

-at the New York Hall of Science- Adults are invited to attend a panel discussion and Q&A on raising children who are on the autism spectrum. A book signing for My Baby Rides the Short Bus will follow the event. The panel of experts includes authors, educators, and parents of children with autism. Sunday, April 10th, 2 p.m. Free. Registration required, please follow this link: http://www.nysci.org/visit/events/event/autismpanel Panelists include: * Jennifer Silverman, co-editor of My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities. * Sharis Ingram, contributor to My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities. * Carol Greenburg, a mother with Asperger's syndrome who runs a special education consulting group. * Liane Kupferberg Carter, writer for the Huffington Post and the New York Times parenting blog Motherlode, and a mother of an adult son on the autism spectrum.

Short Bus is nominated for an award-please vote!

http://specialchildren.about.com/b/2011/02/11/vote-for-favorite-special-needs-memoir.htm

washington dc saturday

A Book Event and Community Gathering for Parents, Caregivers, and Friends of Kids with Disabilities

Saturday, December 4 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Center for Community Change, 1536 U St NW, Washington DC

My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities is an anthology of articles written by parents about the unique joys and challenges of their families.

Light dinner provided -- bring a dish to share if possible. Event space is wheelchair accessible.

The book's co-editor and contributor Jennifer Silverman will be joined by local parents, writers, and activists Tricia Theis Rogalski (http://unringingthebell.typepad.com/), Jane Andrews, Krista Hanson and Burke Stansbury in reading and speaking about their experience of raising kids with disabilities.

For more information, contact Krista: kristaleehanson@gmail.com

Co-sponsored by Empower DC and the DC Childcare Collective

Denver! Boulder!

Readings this weekend:

Saturday 11/13 in Denver at 7 p.m.

27 Social Centre, 2727 W 27th Ave

and Sunday 11/14 in Boulder at 2 p.m.

Left Hand Books, 1200 Pearl Street #10

both with Amy Saxon Bosworth and Jennifer Silverman

Western Mass. Reading

Next Saturday, 11/6, Reading at Food For Thought Books in Amherst, MA. 2 p.m. with Short Bus' Maria June, Jennifer Silverman and Kyra Anderson (Gravity Pulls You In).

Food For Thought Books

upcoming events!

Look for us doing readings in Amherst, MA 11/6, Denver 11/13 & Boulder 11/14. Details forthcoming!