Award-winning Author, Deborah Hopkinson, Celebrates Book Launch with Blog Tour and Book Signing

PORTLAND, Ore. - March 29, 2016 - PRLog -- Award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson is celebrating the release of her new book, A Bandit's Tale, The Muddled Adventures of a Pickpocket, with a book signing at 4pm, Saturday, April 9, 2016, at A Children's Place Bookstore in Portland, OR, along with local author Rosanne Parry. Deborah will also be on a blog tour April 6-16, 2016. Blog tours allow authors/illustrators, students, educators and book lovers to connect "virtually" through interviews on websites, podcasts, blog sites and on-line radio shows.

Published in April 2016 for the 150^th Anniversary of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA),  A BANDIT'S TALE is a Junior Library Guild selection exploring  19^th century New York City immigrant life and social reform movements including the effort to improve conditions for work horses. "Although the subject matter is serious, this is also a fast-paced adventure story with humor and short chapters designed to appeal to young readers," said Hopkinson.

DEBORAH HOPKINSON is the award-winning author of many books for children. Her most recent picture book is Beatrix Potter and the Unfortunate Tale of a Borrowed Guinea Pig, published in honor of the 150^th anniversary of the birth of Beatrix Potter. This spring she will also publish a book about young activists and sea turtles entitled Follow the Moon Home, co-authored with Philippe Cousteau. Her novels Into the Firestorm and The Great Trouble have been featured as Oregon Battle of the Books selections. In 2013, her nonfiction title Titanic: Voices from the Disaster was a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book. Visit her online at DeborahHopkinson.com (http://www.deborahhopkinson.com/) and follow her on Twitter at @Deborahopkinson.