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CHILDREN

SAT/4/17 :: 10:30a
Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas, co-authors of “Wow in the World: The How and the Wow of the Human Body,” in Conversation with Award-Winning Actress Zooey Deschanel

Hosted by Yvonne Villarreal

Bookseller: Once Upon a Time Bookstore

 

Based on their #1 kids podcast, Wow in the World, hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz take young readers on a hilarious, fact-filled, and highly illustrated journey through the human body—covering everything from our toes to our tongues to our brains and our lungs! Featuring hilarious illustrations and filled with facts, jokes, photos, quizzes, and Wow-To experiments, this book has everything you need to better understand your own walking, talking, barfing, breathing, pooping body of WOW!

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MODERATOR
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Zooey Deschanel

Emmy, Golden Globe and Grammy nominee and Critics’ Choice Award winner Zooey Deschanel has charmed big and small screen audiences through her nuanced leading performances in films like “(500) Days of Summer,” the Christmas classic “Elf,” “Yes Man,” “Almost Famous” and the hit television series, “New Girl”. Her band, She & Him, has released six albums.

 

PARTICIPANTS
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Guy Raz

Guy Raz is the creator and host of the popular podcasts How I Built This,Wisdom from the Top, and The Rewind on Spotify. He’s also the co-creator of the acclaimed podcasts TED Radio Hour and the children’s programs Wow in the World and Two Whats?! and a Wow!. He’s received the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, the National Headliner Award, and the NABJ Award, among many others and was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard. He lives in the Bay Area. .

 

HOST
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Yvonne Villarreal

Yvonne Villarreal covers television for the Los Angeles Times. She joined The Times in 2008 as a Metpro fellow before moving to the Calendar section as an entertainment reporter. A native Angeleno, Villarreal earned her bachelor’s degree from Cal State Fullerton and her master’s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism.

 

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Mindy Thomas

Mindy Thomas is the cocreator, cohost, and head writer of the award-winning Wow in the World and Two Whats?! and a Wow! podcasts. She is also a Gracie award-winning host of the Absolutely Mindy Show. Mindy believes that childhood thrives at the intersection of imagination and curiosity and finds that her best work does too. She lives in northern Virginia with her husband and two kids, and has no plans of ever growing up.

 

BOOKSELLER
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Once Upon A Time Bookstore

Please support our local bookseller for this panel. Signed bookplates will be available from most authors. Purchase HERE.

 

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Meena Harris, “Ambitious Girl”

10:00a
Conversation with Mary McNamara
Anyone who’s ever been underestimated or overshadowed will find inspiration in this empowering new picture book from bestselling author Meena Harris. This is a timely and inspiring must-read for every little girl!
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Co-author of “Food Between Friends: A Cookbook”

2:oop
Conversation with Matt Brennan
Best friends Jesse Tyler Ferguson, star of Modern Family, and recipe developer Julie Tanous pay homage to their hometowns as they whip up modern California food with Southern and Southwestern spins in their debut cookbook. Join Jesse and L.A. Times TV editor Matt Brennan for a conversation about food, cooking and entertainment.
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Richard Thompson, “Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975″

5:00p
Conversation with RJ Smith
Richard has graciously agreed to play two songs!
In his memoir, Richard recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way again. This legendary British folk musician takes us back to the late 1960s, a period of great change and creativity.
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Don Lemon, “This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism”

Noon
Conversation with Greg Braxton
The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon  — America’s only Black prime-time anchor — brings an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them. In conversation with L.A. Times staff writer Greg Braxton.
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Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, author of “Broken Horses: A Memoir”

6:00p
Conversation with Mikael Wood
In Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile takes readers through the events of her life that shaped her very raw art—from her start at a local singing competition where she performed Elton John’s “Honky Cat” in a bedazzled white polyester suit, to her first break opening for Dave Matthews Band, to many sleepless tours over fifteen years and six studio albums, all while raising two children with her wife, Catherine Shepherd.
Broken Horses is an evocative and piercingly honest memoir.
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